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1 6 Most cranberry is a con! The great period of manufacture was from c1870 to c1930 but reproductions over the last ten years and new cranberry has done us no favours. Cranberry was also Webb, Stourbridge, cranberry & opaque glass scent , made in France, Belgium, Bavaria, Bohemia and the as a swan’s head, silver gilt Late 19thC Webb’s 11 USA. Its manufacture across the Atlantic took place cap with marks for Mordan glass biscuit , white over mainly in New where cranberries are grown and & Co, , dated 1884, deep cranberry, cut back with it is perhaps here that the name was first coined. In 14.5cm. Locke & England, flowering apple blossom Victorian Europe it is called ruby. Cranberry is made by Leamington Spa. Feb 06. boughs, white metal cover, epergne, central trumpet, two adding a gold chlorine which has been dissolved in a 6in high. Fieldings, West HP: £2,700. ABP: £3,175. outer trumpets and 2 twisted solution of nitric and hydrochloric acids. It was certainly Hagley, Worcs. Jun 05. HP: canes supporting hanging £920. ABP: £1,082. made in Roman times. We have the famous Lycurgus baskets, frilled edge from the fourth century. Its origins were rediscovered in 7 base, 21.5in high. Diamond Mills & Co, Felixstowe. Mar the seventeenth century by either Johann Kanckel in 06. HP: £425. ABP: £499. Bohemia or in Florence. All the nineteenth century manufacturers produced cranberry but there was 12 also a cottage industry carried on in backyard factories. Despite the downturn, prices show that collectors are still at times being ruled by their hearts rather than their Late 19thC cranberry and heads. I cannot say that there has ever been an upper iridescent glass drinks set: market but there is a middle market and a burgeoning pair of decanters, 12 stemmed 2 Pair of white overlaid cran- lower market. The Webb scent bottle at 1 is exceptional and circular tray, gilt berry painted and gilt table Pair of late 19thC Bohemian rims. (15) Wintertons Ltd, but hardly relevant. Let us also leave out the Bohemian lustres, drops, some white overlaid, cranberry Lichfield. Mar 01. HP: £900. overlay glass as well as the superb Thomas Webb cameo af, 10in high. Tring Market glass ewers, 23.5in high. ABP: £1,058. examples at 5 and 6. These are the serious pieces that Amersham Auction Rooms, Auctions, Herts. Mar 02. HP: every collector should be targeting. I should also include £420. ABP: £494. Bucks. Mar 03. HP: £2,000. 17 and 18. The glass drinks set at 7 only holds a high ABP: £2,352. position because it is a set averaging £70 a piece. This is the worst buy on the page and a ‘pink’ elephant unless it 3 13 8 ends up in a . The top end of the lower market mainly belongs to epergnes and lustres in the £200-£600 range. There are enough examples for the reader to study Pair 19thC the market and see that prices have done very little in the goblets, cranberry glass with last few years. Both make excellent table decorations but white overlay, floral band, are prone to damage. 23 and 28 are typical. I wouldn’t faceted stems, 20.5cm high. Pair of 19thC Bohemian Sworders, Stansted quarrel with most of the lots on page 55 except that fussy Victorian cranberry glass cranberry glass urns, white Mountfitchet. Sep 03. HP: drinks sets never get used and are examples of ‘pink’ four division epergne, flared overlay, 13.5in high. Andrew £850. ABP: £999. elephants. This is not the with decorative pieces (34) wavy rimmed trumpets, wavy Hartley, Ilkley. Oct 00. HP: or functional items like 31. The scent at 30 and 35 rimmed base, 52cm high. £1,950. ABP: £2,293. 9 Wintertons Ltd, Lichfield. are highly collectible and good buys. At 39 is a good Mar 00. HP: £400. ABP: £470. example of nineteenth century cranberry and a few more lots attract the eye such as the scent bottles at 49, 52 and 61 and the silver topped tidy at 58. How many 14 4 cranberry collections can boast one of these? Much of the rest represents poor value at an average of about £30 a piece. Should we be buying say 41, 63, 66, 74 and 91 at an average of about £7 a glass? I doubt it. Although Pair of mid 19thC Bohemian Victorian cranberry glass cranberry glass lustres over- much cheaper than at retail, they won’t get used, take up epergne, central upright laid with white, crinoline tops space and are hardly artistic. As always better to save the , two smaller , 2 with oval vignettes of white Victorian cranberry glass pounds until something worthwhile appears, but not green glass wrythen moulded enamel painted with flowers, epergne, central trumpet with Mary Gregory! Its ubiquitous presence in all areas of the canes, 2 cone-shaped baskets, complete set of faceted trailed clear glass decoration, clear glass trailed decor- market serves as a warning. Sensible investing does not lustre’s & drop. Kent Auction 2 smaller trumpets, 2 wrythen ation, 22in. Fellows & Sons, mean buying the three glasses at 56 for a wasteful £117. Galleries, Folkestone. Mar moulded clear glass canes, Birmingham. Jul 03. HP: I have valued many a cranberry collection over the years 07. HP: £1,200. ABP: £1,411. cranberry hanging basket, £550. ABP: £646. and also viewed many a dealer’s stock and repro is rife, (s.d.), 21.5in. Fellows & Sons, Hockley, Birmingham. except where the dealers are specialists. General dealers 5 Oct 03. HP: £380. ABP: £446. cannot tell the difference. All genuine antique glass will 10 have bubbles of air and stones or seeds, that is, in the mix. All will show wear on areas that have been in contact with surfaces. Everybody concerned should learn 15 about pontil marks and their history. They should under- Pair 19thC cranberry glass stand the marks left by the gadget, the tool that replaced lustre , shaped cut rims, the pontil and study the history of press moulding and Thomas Webb cranberry/white tapered centre columns, cut carved with prismatic drops, 11.25in Pair of Victorian cranberry made products. Most cranberry in the market convolvulus, 5.25in. high. Canterbury Auction and white table today is twentieth century and modern. Until you become Gorringes, Lewes. Apr 01. Galleries, Kent. Dec 05. HP: lustres. Gorringes, Bexhill. familiar with all of the manufacturing processes stick to HP: £1,100. ABP: £1,293. £500. ABP: £588. Dec 04. HP: £360. ABP: £423. buying from specialists in consumer protected situations. ANTIQUES INFO - January/February 08 Glass

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Set of 3 Victorian cranberry Pair of Victorian cranberry 16 glass bells, each with pale glass trumpet shaped vases, green handle, 11.5in and crimped/folded rims, clear Pair of Edwardian cranberry Victorian cranberry glass 12in. Gorringes, Lewes. Oct trailed decoration, 10.5in glass lustre vases, prismatic epergne, 7 trumpet shaped 04. HP: £300. ABP: £352. 19thC Bohemian cranberry high. Canterbury Auction lustre drops, 8in high. fitments, clear trailed decor- & white overlaid glass vase, Galleries, Kent. Oct 05. HP: Andrew Hartley, Ilkley. Aug ation, base with crimped rim, slender flared neck, pedestal £200. ABP: £235. 00. HP: £360. ABP: £423. 18.75in high, one trumpet foot, facet cut and gilt slightly chipped. Canterbury 25 arabesque decoration, 11.5in. Auction Galleries, Kent. Jun Fellows & Sons, Birmingham. 07. HP: £320. ABP: £376. Jul 03. HP: £260. ABP: £305.

17 21 35 Victorian cranberry glass Cranberry glass sherry set: double ended scent bottle, decanter and six stemmed base metal mounts, 5in long, Victorian Bohemian cranberry glasses, circular tray, painted 30 with similar clear glass pedestal bowl, white with figures in the Mary example, 4.75in long. Victorian cranberry glass hobnail enamel panels, Gregory style, decanter 9in Fellows & Sons, Hockley, double ended scent bottle, florally painted on white high. Hartleys, Ilkley. Oct 06. Birmingham. Oct 03. HP: metal mounts with embossed enamel with gilt acanthus HP: £300. ABP: £352. £180. ABP: £211. floral decoration, 4.7in long, decoration, similar floral with a similar blue glass panelled outward splayed Cranberry glass epergne, 36 26 example. Fellows & Sons, stem, old damage to top of raised central trumpet with 4 Hockley, Birmingham. Oct stem now riveted, 30.5cm. smaller trumpets, ribbed 03. HP: £220. ABP: £258. Marilyn Swain Auctions, outline, wavy rims, scrolled Grantham. May 05. HP: EPNS stand on four ball feet, £360. ABP: £423. 13in high. Fellows & Sons, Hockley, Birmingham. Oct Prices quoted are actual 03. HP: £310. ABP: £364. 31 hammer prices (HP) and the Approximate Buyer’s Price Late 19thC cranberry claret Two Victorian cranberry (ABP) includes an average 22 jug, clear glass barley sugar premium of 15% + VAT. Mary Gregory type cranberry glass fruit comports with gilt handle, star cut to base, glass jug, c1900, tray and decoration. John Taylors, plated mount engraved swags three goblets, jug 35cm, Louth. Dec 01. HP: £210. & tassles, ivory knop handle, chips. (5) Sworders, Stansted ABP: £247. 10.5in high. Dee, Atkinson & Mountfitchet. Feb 07. HP: Harrison, Driffield. Jul 04. £300. ABP: £352. HP: £170. ABP: £199. 32 18 Cranberry/clear glass epergne, central trumpet with clear twist decoration, three candy twist canes supporting cran- 27 37 berry baskets, fluted cran- berry bowl, 21in. Golding Late 19th/early 20thC Stour- Young & Co, Grantham. Nov Pair of cranberry glass Victorian cranberry glass bridge crystal cameo vase, 06. HP: £310. ABP: £364. lustres. John Taylors, Louth. claret jug, Mary Gregory, Victorian cranberry/white poss. Thomas Webb, cased Apr 01. HP: £290. ABP: £341. enamelled with children and epergne, gilt in cranberry over clear birds. Gorringes, Bexhill. scrolls, castellated rim, cut crystal, cut back with a wild 23 glass drops. Rosebery’s, 28 Mar 02. HP: £200. ABP: £235. flower design below a foliate London. Mar 05. HP: £160. and lattice collar, clear ABP: £188. ground detailed with a fine hatched pattern, 6.25in high. 38 Fieldings, Stourbridge. Apr 05. HP: £350. ABP: £411.

33 19 Cranberry glass epergne, Victorian cranberry glass Two Masonic cranberry central trumpet vase clear Elkington & Co, late 19thC, epergne, central frilled bowled rummers, symbol Late Victorian cranberry glass waved rim and applied cranberry glass, oval sweet trumpet with clear glass engraved , clear glass glass epergne, clear glass spiral flanked by 3 smaller dish, 8in wide, cast silver wire trailing, flanked by scrolled feet, one with star cut square crimped rim, two conforming vases and 3 baskets, saucer carrier, ribbon tied mount, branches with baskets, two foot, 10.5cm high and other baskets, 10.75in high. base with waved rim, 20.5in Birmingham 1898. Amersham similar trumpets, 19.5in high. with circular foot, 14cm high. Canterbury Auction high. Hartleys, Ilkley. Jun 07. Auction Rooms, Bucks. Jun Hartleys, Ilkley. Aug 06. HP: Cheffins, Cambridge. Apr 05. Galleries, Kent. Oct 05. HP: HP: £300. ABP: £352. 01. HP: £340. ABP: £399. £280. ABP: £329. HP: £200. ABP: £235. £160. ABP: £188. ANTIQUES INFO - January/February 08 Glass

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44 39 59 Two similar Victorian glass 54 fruit comports, circular top with slice cut cranberry glass Pair of late 19thC cranberry rim, 7.25in wide. Andrew glass vases, crimped/folded Pair cranberry glass waisted Hartley, Ilkley. Aug 00. HP: Bohemian glass scent bottle, rims, 2 clear glass handles, vases, with gilt metal ribbon £140. ABP: £164. silver colour metal top clear glass footrims, 11.75in holding a miniature shovel and rake, 5.5in high. Fellows Cranberry glass jug, clear hinging to a clear , high. Canterbury Auction & Sons, Hockley, Birmingham. handle and foot, neck applied 45 cranberry overlaid body, Galleries, Kent. Oct 05. HP: Oct 03. HP: £100. ABP: £117. with a fine opaque white coil, engraved to centre piece with £110. ABP: £129. late 19thC, 22.5cm. Woolley monogram, 9.5cm. Sworders, & Wallis, Salisbury. Sep 00. Stansted Mountfitchet. Apr HP: £150. ABP: £176. 05. HP: £120. ABP: £141. 55 60

40 Late 19thC Stourbridge cranberry glass epergne poss. by Richardson’s, frill edge bowl, tall central flute 50 Victorian cranberry tinted with 2 side flutes, barley twist Victorian cranberry glass bell vase, surface with moulded canes set with cranberry vaseline rim, clear glass Victorian cranberry tinted narrow banding, applied hanging baskets, applied handle tipped with blue, water jug with double ringed green glass crimped wavy crimped clear crystal spirals, 34cm, with smaller cranberry neck, 10in high. Canterbury rim and border to the body, S/D. Fieldings, Stourbridge. glass bell with clear handle, Auction Galleries, Kent. Aug silver plated scrolled frame, Late Victorian cranberry Nov 05. HP: £140. ABP: £164. 02. HP: £110. ABP: £129. 25cm high. (af) Frank glass epergne, 17.5in high, Marshall & Co, Knutsford. carrying handle, 8in. Fellows one branch in need of repair. Jan 06. HP: £110. ABP: £129. & Sons, Hockley, Birmingham. Tring Market Auctions, Oct 03. HP: £100. ABP: £117. Herts. Nov 02. HP: £150. 56 ABP: £176. 51 61 41 46 Two Victorian cranberry Cranberry and vaseline glass glass beakers, Mary Gregory, jack-in-the-pulpit vase. 21 pieces of Victorian cran- enamelled with children and Gorringes, Bexhill. Sep 04. berry glassware. Sworders, a cranberry tot. Gorringes, HP: £110. ABP: £129. Victorian cranberry glass Stansted Mountfitchet. Mar Pair of Victorian cranberry Lewes. Mar 02. HP: £100. scent bottle, base metal 03. HP: £150. ABP: £176. glass jugs, partly moulded ABP: £117. 52 mount with embossed floral bodies, crimped rims, clear decoration, 3.5in high. handles, 8.5in. Canterbury Fellows & Sons, Hockley, Auction Galleries, Kent. Oct Birmingham. Oct 03. HP: 42 05. HP: £140. ABP: £164. £100. ABP: £117. Victorian cranberry glass 62 scent bottle, faceted decor- 57 47 ation, clear glass spherical stopper, (s.d.), 3.25in high & Pair cranberry glass candle- similar lozenge shaped sticks, gilt borders, one with cranberry glass scent flask and stopper. Fellows & Sons, Victorian cranberry glass minute rim chip, 8.5in high. Victorian glass epergne, Birmingham. Jul 03. HP: bulbous jug, partly panelled Tring Market Auctions, cranberry coloured trumpet Pair of Mary Gregory £110. ABP: £129. body, reeded clear glass loop Herts. Mar 03. HP: £150. vase and 3 clear glass leaves cranberry glass carafes, of handle, 8in high, and a late ABP: £176. circular base, 18in. baluster form, 9.25in high. 53 Victorian cranberry glass (incomplete) Gorringes, (2) Dee, Atkinson & jug, clear crimped glass Lewes. Apr 02. HP: £100. 43 Harrison, Driffield. Sep 07. handle, 5.25in. Canterbury ABP: £117. HP: £140. ABP: £161. Auction Galleries, Kent. Oct 58 05. HP: £95. ABP: £111. 48 63 Victorian cranberry glass wine jug, wheel-cut decoration, clear glass rope-twist handle, Eight Victorian wine glasses, Pair of oval lobed cranberry 7in high, Victorian cranberry cranberry tinted glass bowls, baskets, plated rims, swing glass goblet with clear glass Late Victorian cranberry clear stems and footrims, 5in Victorian cranberry glass handles, baskets highlighted knop stem and an Edwardian glass match tidy of ribbed high, & 6 late Victorian cran- claret jug, Mary Gregory, with (rubbed), 7.25in cranberry glass waisted vase, globular form, with silver berry glass ‘Pony’ tumblers, enamelled with girl carrying wide. Tring Market Auctions, 10in high. (3) Dee, Atkinson mounted rim, 2.25in. 4.25in high. Canterbury a basket Gorringes, Bexhill. Herts. Jan 04. HP: £130. & Harrison, Driffield. Nov Gorringes, Lewes. Jun 03. Auction Galleries, Kent. Oct Mar 02. HP: £150. ABP: £176. ABP: £152. 05. HP: £110. ABP: £129. HP: £100. ABP: £117. 05. HP: £95. ABP: £111. ANTIQUES INFO - January/February 08 Glass

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76 70 Victorian cranberry glass sugar bowl, wavy rim, crimped Two cranberry glass leaf Cranberry glass dimpled Late 19thC cranberry glass feet, 6in. Gorringes, Lewes. pattern chamber candlesticks, decanter, reeded clear handle, jug, clear glass handle, 7in Two ‘Nailsea’ pipes, multiple Sep 00. HP: £60. ABP: £70. clear loop handle, crimped 26cm and a simila decanter, high. Dee, Atkinson & knopped stems formed from and moulded footrim, a late 17.5cm. Boldon Auction Harrison, Driffield. Apr 06. cranberry glass with combed Victorian cranberry glass Galleries, Tyne & Wear. Sep HP: £75. ABP: £88. opaque white decoration, 77 bowl/cover, crimped/moulded 05. HP: £45. ABP: £52. longest 46cm long, glue 71 footrim, clear knop to cover, repair. Bearne’s, Exeter. Jun 3 late Victorian cranberry 5.75in high, and a dimpled 88 05. HP: £90. ABP: £105. glass vases, crimped rims, cranberry glass /cover, clear stems/footrims, 11.75in, clear bulbous knop, 7.5in Pair cranberry glass sugar 12in, 12.75in high. Canterbury high. Canterbury Auction bowls, clear crimped rims, Auction Galleries, Kent. Dec Galleries, Kent. Dec 05. HP: plain stems/footrims, 4.75in 05. HP: £60. ABP: £70. £55. ABP: £64. Mary Gregory type cranberry dia x 4in high, and two small cream jug, typical white 65 cylindrical handled dishes, 83 78 enamelled flying Putti, clear clear rims. Canterbury Cranberry glass jug, reeded handle, 9.5cm. Boldon Auction Auction Galleries, Kent. Oct handle, 8in high. Golding Galleries, Tyne & Wear. Sep 05. HP: £70. ABP: £82. Young & Co, Grantham. Feb 05. HP: £45. ABP: £52. 06. HP: £90. ABP: £105. Wavy edge cranberry glass 89 bowl, multi-ribbed border, Late Victorian cranberry 72 13cm dia, and a cranberry glass bulbous basket, clear glass jam pot and cover with Cranberry glass jug, 4in, glass crimped and patterned clear glass knop, 10cm dia. 19thC cranberry cut glass grape vine framed bowl with rim, conforming footrim and Thos Mawer & Son, Lincoln. 66 cologne bottle, hobnail cut cranberry glass liner, 4in dia reeded clear glass twisted Apr 02. HP: £50. ABP: £58. & squared fluted edge handle, 8.75in, and a similar diamond decoration 2in high 8 Victorian cranberry wine cranberry glass bowl, clear bowl, crimped/patterned rim, x 3in dia. Kent Auction glasses, mismatched. Golding glass shell feet, 3in. Golding 3.25in high. Canterbury Galleries, Folkestone. Dec Young & Co, Grantham. Nov Young & Co, Grantham. Feb Auction Galleries, Kent. Oct 06. HP: £45. ABP: £52. 06. HP: £90. ABP: £105. 84 06. HP: £70. ABP: £82. 05. HP: £60. ABP: £70. 67 79 73

Pair of cranberry glass bud 90 Two late Victorian cranberry Late Victorian cranberry vases, trailed decoration, glass posy vases, squat form, glass bowl, clear crimped (both s.d), 8in high. 19thC cranberry jug, 8in and clear crimped/moulded glass and moulded rim, 5.75in dia, Fellows & Sons, Hockley, pair of 19thC cranberry jugs girdles, 3in high, and powder Cranberry glass spirit flagon, a similar bulbous vase, six Birmingham. Oct 03. HP: with stoppers, 10in. Ewbank bowl/cover with moulded and late 19thC, metal collar pointed star pattern rim, 5in £50. ABP: £58. Auctioneers, Send, Surrey. crimped circular girdle, clear inscribed ‘Barnes and high, and a similar bulbous Dec 05. HP: £42. ABP: £49. knop to , 4.25in. Canterbury Mortlake Regatta’, cork and jug with crimped rim, 4.5in Auction Galleries, Canterbury. metal stopper, 20cm high. high. Canterbury Auction 85 Oct 05. HP: £80. ABP: £94. Hampton & Littlewood, Galleries, Kent. Oct 05. HP: Exeter. Jul 04. HP: £66. £60. ABP: £70. ABP: £77. 91 Nine cranberry glass wine glasses. Black Country Cranberry glass dimpled Auctions, Dudley. Dec 05. 68 80 decanter, reeded clear handle, HP: £40. ABP: £47. 74 26cm and a smaller similar, 19thC cranberry glass jug, Four Cranberry glass wines, 17.5cm. Boldon Auction 92 clear glass loop handle, clear glass stems and feet. Galleries, Tyne & Wear. Sep 7.5in high. Dee, Atkinson & Lambert & Foster, Tenterden. Late 19thC cranberry glass 05. HP: £45. ABP: £52. jug, clear glass handle, 5.25in Harrison, Driffield. Apr 06. Sep 02. HP: £65. ABP: £76. Cranberry glass moulded high, & a faceted Edwardian HP: £80. ABP: £94. gimble flask. Black Country cranberry glass carafe with 86 Auctions, Dudley. Sep 05. 75 tumbler. (3) Dee, Atkinson & HP: £40. ABP: £47. Harrison, Driffield. Feb 06. HP: £60. ABP: £70. 69 93

Cranberry glass celery vase, 81 frilled rim, foliage etched, clear lobed foot, 7in high, & Cranberry glass decanter, Cranberry claret jug, clear cranberry glass jug, clear clear glass stopper and loop faceted stopper/strap handle, Silver plated stand, flashed loop handle, white enamel handle, (s.d), 10in high. Four small cranberry glass ground pontil mark to base. cranberry glass jam dish flowers, 7.5in. (2) Hartleys, Fellows & Sons, Hockley, items. Golding Young & Co, Kent Auction Galleries, floral decoration. Golding Ilkley. Dec 06. HP: £80. Birmingham. Oct 03. HP: Grantham. Feb 06. HP: £60. Folkestone. Jul 05. HP: £45. Young & Co, Grantham. Nov ABP: £94. £65. ABP: £76. ABP: £70. ABP: £52. 06. HP: £25. ABP: £29. ANTIQUES INFO - January/February 08