So this looks like a mad bottle ticket crossed with a baby's catchall bib. What the heck...? [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
It is! But that’s a dauber shape.
If you’re on Facebook there’s an excellent British studio mystery marks group, too.
I’d say perfume bottle. It looks Israeli.
Aha! Splendid.
And I posted literally at the same time as aj tagged me!
These were made in both Italy and also Czechoslovakia. The flower styles can be a pointer to which country. They were sold widely as tourist...
I agree, pestle and mortar in her hand, he doesn’t like the pong. Bulrushes. And something else, I’m thinking on.
Hm. I’ve had a vintage perfume bottle like that, it was Czech. Those better photos look cut.
That’s the stuff, it’s lovely.
He’s a market porter, that’s how they carried produce. Still do. That’s a fabulous cartoon. I remember the market moving.
925 goes way back, even to the early twentieth here. it may well be British, we did use that, especially on Scottish pieces. And yours looks...
I suspect you’re using it for its intended purpose, it looks part of a dressing table set.
That date on the fitting is helpful, isn’t it! I’d have said Edwardian anyhow, and in the Moroccan style. It’s lovely quality, someone bevelled...
It’s got a bit of age, with that wear on the base, and a decent pontil. Looks handblown anyhow . That’s not a typically Japanese base. I’m...
I can’t tell if the glass is stained, flashed or coloured through.
Not quite. I was accepted to read organic Chemistry at uni, decided not to, so did a technical management trainee role. That got me into early IT....
I could bore you rigid with the Bessemer process. After half a century it’s still fresh in my mind.
I’d think the glass elements are Italian.
I know pig iron. Partly, I studied chemistry. Partly, I read John Masefields poetry.
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