December 2001 Cloud Glass Newsletter

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In this issue:

  • Web site updates

  • Fairs report

  • Cloud Glass on Ebay

  • Reports from the Pottery Gazette

Cloud Glass Web Site

As mentioned in the last email, I have created the page on Davidson Flower Supports. We also have the first advert on the Dealer page. If you are a dealer then don’t forget you can advertise on the Cloud Glass web site without charge. Just email your details and I will include them on the page. Also we have the wanted/for sale page. Again free of charge.

Antique Fairs

Sadly I must report I have not been able to visit a single Antique fair since the last newsletter – no glass fair, no Swinderby, no Newark. Hopefully I have not been missing any bargains!!!

Ebay Cloud Glass

One thing I have meaning to do for a long time, is too keep track of the Cloud Glass that goes through Ebay. Ebay Cloud Glass comes from all over the world and has both the common items and the rarities. Like many of us I have bought and sold items on Ebay and consider it to be a very important source of both information and ‘buying’ opportunities. I therefore plan to include a list of Cloud Glass which has gone through Ebay in each future newsletter. The list for November is given in the table below. Please note the following:

i)                     I have not included items which did not sell

ii)                   Auction prices are given in the currency in which the auction operated – in most cases US dollars

 

End Date

Location

Ebay Item No

Selling Price

Description

 

 

 

 

 

1st November

UK

1288112000

£46.00

Purple Cloud 7.5 “ 1910MD Bowl with block and stand

2nd November

UK

1289941710

£21.0

Amber Cloud 8” Column Vase (No 279)

3rd November

AU

1291090956

$36

Amber Cloud Glass

3rd November

AU

1290315004

$41.00

Green Cloud Posy Bowl No 204 7.5” (no frog)

3rd November

UK

1290317080

$51.90

Purple Cloud 1910MD (no frog or stand)

3rd November

UK

1290318868

$20.50

Purple Cloud 1910MD (no frog or stand)

3rd November

UK

1290323848

$60.00

Purple Cloud 5” No 283 Powder Jar

3rd November

UK

1290363192

$37.50

Amber Cloud 5” No 283 Powder Jar

3rd November

UK

1290367074

$20.50

Pair of Amber candlesticks

3rd November

UK

1290373576

$15.51

3.5” Blue Cloud Dome Flower Block

4th November

UK

1289475210

£31.00

Amber Cloud 5” No 283 Powder Jar (no lid)

4th November

UK

1290593260

$51.00

Purple Cloud Bowl No 696D 10” with stand

4th November

UK

1290719605

$44.00

Orange Cloud Bowl 1910BD 9” no frog or stand

4th November

UK

1290731394

$22.50

Purple Cloud No 1 Parfait

4th November

UK

1290731395

$20.50

Amber Cloud No 1 Parfait

5th November

AU

1290796297

$14.50

Amber Cloud No 1 Parfait

6th November

USA

1290196333

$76.00

Topaz-Violet “Edith” Comport

7th November

Canada

1291622567

$256

Sepia “Lotus” Vase 19cm with Oralit label

7th November

AU

1480610475

AU $52.90

Amber Cloud 1910TD posy set ???

10th November

UK

1291949620

$62.01

Amber Cloud 8” Column Vase (No 279)

12th November

AU

1293681780

$45.00

Purple Cloud 6” Column Vase (No 279)

12th November

AU

1293847804

$77.00

Orange Cloud Bowl 1910MD 7.5” Black Frog

12th November

AU

1293844883

$227.5

Orange Cloud 6” Column Vase (No 279)

13th November

AU

1294076931

$49.50

Purple Cloud small posy Bowl 5” No 248F with stand and flower block

13th November

UK

1293064152

$41.01

Purple Cloud 6” Column Vase (No 279)

14th November

UK

1293303090

£52.00

Blue Cloud 8” Column Vase (No 279)

14th November

UK

1293396807

£45.00

Blue Cloud 6” Column Vase (No 279)

14th November

UK

1293401251

£18.00

Pair of Amber Candlesticks from 326 Trinket set

15th November

UK

1295097717

$62.01

Pair of Purple Candlesticks No 283

17th November

AU

1295717966

$19.99

Amber cloud Bowl and frog S/696D 10”

17th November

UK

1296050226

$48.00

Amber Cloud Bowl & Stand No 21 10”

18th November

NZ

1294980077

$86.00

Orange Cloud Bowl 1907T (no flower block)

18th November

AU

1295042203

$188.50

Orange Cloud 6” Column vase (No 279)

18th November

AU

1295042856

$243

Orange Cloud 8” Column vase (No 279)

18th November

Netherlands

1484725871

$150

Sepia Cloud bowl “Liana”

18th November

Netherlands

1484728421

$346.55

Orange Oralit Vase “Rheingold”

18th November

Netherlands

1484731062

$75.00

Sepia Cloud comport “Edith”

18th November

UK

1296416508

$27.00

Amber Cloud 1907TD small posy bowl with flower block and stand

19th November

AU

1296597229

$76.00

Amber Cloud Vase No 712 10”

20th November

AU

1295751398

$36.00

Green Cloud Glass ??

20th November

AU

1295908097

AU $50.00

Amber Cloud Bowl No 696F 9”

20th November

AU

1295810738

AU $5.00

4” Amber Dome flower block

23rd November

UK

1297298060

$54.00

Blue Cloud small posy bowl 1907TD with block and stand

24th November

UK

1298756813

$15.00

Amber Cloud Bowl 1910MD

24th November

UK

1298787143

£39.00

Blue Cloud 1910SD with semi-dome block

24th November

UK

1298791015

£19.00

Matt Blue Cloud Bowl 1910M with flower dome

24th November

UK

1298841963

$24.00

3.25” Topaz-Briar stand

25th November

USA

1298977074

$47.00

Amber Cloud Vase No 293D (turned over rim)

25th November

UK

1297955290

£21.00

Blue Cloud No 1 parfait

25th November

Netherlands

1487181573

$28.00

Amber Cloud small Bowl No 248F

25th November

Netherlands

1487184602

$185.00

Sepia Cloud Cake Stand “Zentrum”

25th November

UK

1298970879

$14.99

Amber Cloud Bowl 1907TD

25th November

UK

1300160887

£21.00

Amber Cloud 8” Column vase (No 279)

25th November

AU

1298096581

$110.50

Orange Cloud Bowl No 248D

25th November

USA

1299324546

$25.00

Amber Cloud Vase No 51

26th November

AUS

1299829941

$30.00

Amber Cloud Vase No 50

27th November

UK

1298824812

£17.00

Amber Cloud Glass Vase No 51

27th November

UK

1298827461

£9.50

Purple Cloud Bowl 1910MD

28th November

UK

1301723355

£37.00

Topaz-Briar Bowl 10/1910

29th November

UK

1299753802

£54.48

Purple Cloud N0 283 Trinket tray, Large powder jar and two small powder jars

30th November

AUS

1299921283

$61.00

Amber Cloud Bowl 10/1910 with dome and stand

Reports From the Pottery Gazette

I thought for this newsletter I would include two reports from different times. The 1934 report in the last newsletter was quite extensive. In other years Davidson did not get a mention or only a few lines. For example in 1948 Davidson exhibited at the British Industries Fair for the first time since the war. Only a short paragraph was devoted to the stand:

They will show a selected range from their well known Davidson and ‘Chippendale’ fancy and domestic glassware, embracing fruit sets, sundaes, grape fruit glasses, bowls, dishes, celery trays, ice plates, salvers, sweets, condiment and water sets in flint, also their celebrated “Dome” flower blocks, flower bowls, vases and ashtrays in colours amber and emerald. Further and interesting lines recently re-introduced after their withdrawal from production during war-time conditions’

A photograph of their stand in the Gazette shows the ‘Ripple’ range in what appears to be ‘smoke’ or possible plain green or Amber. In 1958, the British Industries Fair was no more and the Gifts and Fancy Goods Fair at Blackpool had taken over as the main showcase for British Pottery and Glass. Although there is no write up of Davidson’s wares, the company did advertise in the Gazette quite heavily that year. They had no less than 5 different adverts. These were for:

i)                     No 508 Bowl and Vase (A black bowl with a flint glass centre piece) + TD504 Cake Plate  

ii)                   No 510 vase

iii)                  No 504 Fruit Set

iv)                  ‘Baronet’ Crystal range

v)                    No 514 small posy sets in matt pastel colours (This is similar to the Sowerby posy set often seen in Purple Cloud).

In both years there is no evidence of any Cloud Glass. We know that they were still making Amber after the war and that Topaz-Briar was introduced in 1957. Davidson appears to have regarded Cloud Glass as a secondary line to both the ‘Ripple’ glass in 1948 and the new fruit sets etc in 1958.

And Finally

This will be the last newsletter this year. I hope to bring you the next one early in the New Year. Have a very happy Xmas and a prosperous New Year.

Best Wishes

Chris & Val

Please email info@cloudglass.com if you have any comments or suggestions for this newsletter.

 


Copyright (c) Chris and Val Stewart 2001