Oh, I agree the outsides are very good. I'm still not sure it's of that age, but have a look at George Skey of Wilncote.
Insides worry me, they're not well done. The whole ought to be glazed, typically a good blue. And the feet look newer too. Might be Portuguese.
I don't think that's a lemonade set. I think you have part of a tea or coffee set. Pretty .
It's absolutely not Ulster Loyalist. I think you're thinking of the red hand of Ulster. It is a claddagh, indeed, which is an ancient Irish...
Yup, that's why I buy contemporaneous magazines so much - advertisements can be really useful for dating. I sold a wee Estee Lauder perfume holder...
Brown sauce also works. Then dry with a hair dryer.
THey're not always stamped, I have several.
Yup, known modern "fake". But pretty enough.
In the style of Wemyss, but I think that's a Govan mark. Scottish family?
Sandra, I think that book is incorrect. The Kigu family website has compacts from the 1970s and a little later. And I bought my mother one in the...
Kigu went on a lot later than that. http://www.vintage-compacts.com/
I own a William: he's a Bitossi copy of said hippo!
Google on Michael Harris, Mdina Glass, Isle of Wight and Kerry Glass - it's fascinating. There's some lovely stuff made on Malta.
It's new and Chinese, I agree - the ground base is the clue.
Scottish one is in the style of Victorian, but more recent. I have its twin. 1960s ish.
Maltese or at a push, Isle of Wight. It might be Mtarfa or Phoenician: I don't think Mdina or MDG, the base is wrong.
I think the middle one with the pansies is earlier. 1910s or so. The rest, 1920s/30s. The really saleable one is the one on the right, it's fab.
Yup, it's Risis from Singapore. I have several pieces bought out there: they also do things like Chinese Zodiac figures. Really good quality....
Best mosquito repellent known to man, that stuff.
Japanese, I'd say. It's crackelure finish. Late 19th at a guess. It isn't majolica, it's china or porcelain - that isn't a tin glaze.
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