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Update to……Unknown Needle Etched Water Goblet – Not Unknown – Bryce Brothers

17 Sunday Apr 2022

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Boy it is hard to believe that I have been poking around with this blog for more than 10 years.  I have no idea how many people have looked at it.  Now my daily stats are pumped up by the computer bots who pop in – although heavens knows why!

I was lucky that someone asked a question about this stem.  At first I thought that it had remained unidentified, but no…..it was made by Bryce Brothers and is part of their line 760-1.  Don’t know if the etch was made by Bryce, but I have to surmise that it likely was.

Thanks to the viewer who asked the question that pushed me to edit this post.

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February 14, 2012

I wanted to show the stem and a close view of the etch.  I haven’t worked too hard to determine the provenance of this glass.  There are many etches with loops, clovers, or whatever they are called.  If I really wanted to find out who made this glass, I would spend time trying to determine if the stem is unique to a particular company.  I only have one of these stems and I have no idea where I picked it up.  I generally buy single stems of a pattern, cheaply, at a flea market or yard sale.  I use them for my own beverages as I don’t mind, as much, if they get chipped in the handling.  This glass has a pretty shape and a nice optic.  I would bet (someone is welcome to prove me wrong) that it was made before 1938.

Hawkes Cutting on an Unknown Water Goblet

14 Monday Feb 2022

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The photos do not really do this stem justice.  This is a lovely piece of glass.  I bought four water goblets (I assume) online ‘on spec’ knowing that they had the ‘HAWKES’ signature.

Unfortunately I have not been able to identify the provenance of the blank or the name of the cutting.

Here is an interesting online article about Thomas Gibbons Hawkes and his company.

Duncan and Miller ‘Mandarin’

07 Monday Feb 2022

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Over the years I have had some dealings with the very nice woman, Sandy, who curates the Etsy shop Elegant Etches.

I like to troll through her shop as she has beautiful items and is great at their identification.  I came across this set of stemware and thought they were absolutely gorgeous.  Stewed about them for awhile until I cracked and bought them.

I decided that they would become my new set for the table and I sold off my collection of Heisey Queen Ann stems with the Belle-le-Rose etches which had been my tableware.

Sandy told me that she thought that the line was called Mandarin, and that has since been verified.  But the etch is unknown.  I have posted the stems in a number of places seeking some information, to no avail.  Someone said that the decoration on the ‘cube’ is ‘oriental’ not Greek Key as I had originally thought.

This line was made in the 1950s.  Duncan and Miller used outside decorating companies, so this etch might be quite unique and never to be identified.  But they are gorgeous.