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<p>[QUOTE="Ce BCA, post: 3794627, member: 18716"]The glass cutters at Webbs used to call these criss-cross mitre & fan patterns, there are many, many variations made by a variety of glass companies in the UK and of course elsewhere. You often see names for them like 'Tay' or 'Wellington'. The differences are the depth and angle of cuts, spread of the mitres, number of elements to the fan etc. The octagonal foot and knop are not so common and may be the key to getting the exact one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Search the obvious glass makers at replacements.com (Webb, Edinburgh, Stuart etc) or fire them off an email with it and let them track it down!</p><p><br /></p><p>Fun fact, I had a try at cutting one of these patterns many years ago at an open day, it is devilishly hard as you do it mirrored and have to arc the glass - result hilariously bad. Some of the master cutters could do over 100 designs on most glass body shapes just from memory![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ce BCA, post: 3794627, member: 18716"]The glass cutters at Webbs used to call these criss-cross mitre & fan patterns, there are many, many variations made by a variety of glass companies in the UK and of course elsewhere. You often see names for them like 'Tay' or 'Wellington'. The differences are the depth and angle of cuts, spread of the mitres, number of elements to the fan etc. The octagonal foot and knop are not so common and may be the key to getting the exact one. Search the obvious glass makers at replacements.com (Webb, Edinburgh, Stuart etc) or fire them off an email with it and let them track it down! Fun fact, I had a try at cutting one of these patterns many years ago at an open day, it is devilishly hard as you do it mirrored and have to arc the glass - result hilariously bad. Some of the master cutters could do over 100 designs on most glass body shapes just from memory![/QUOTE]
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