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<p>[QUOTE="ritzyvintage, post: 3623752, member: 18191"]Sowerby, England is a possible contender.</p><p><br /></p><p>here is another by the factory.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://th.bing.com/th/id/Rc38e119b087dcce8a80115e6332eed51?rik=FbondQNT5yGYxg&riu=http%3a%2f%2fvictorianpressedglass.com%2fimages%2fsowerby%2fjet%2fsowerby_jet_1.jpg&ehk=tfnsMGL%2blsooU269jMjHxLcmUqnyH0rhjj%2fz3LUER1Q%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Although Sowerby designed & produced some incredible examples of their own, they also had a habit of purchasing, exchanging and using other factories moulds under licence. Including certain pattern-types by Fenton, and European factories too. Removing the signatures, makers marks and/or numbers was also common place, but by no means was this done illegally or in order to dupe. Sowerby, were not the only factory either that adopted this practice.... It was far more cost effective to sell a mould to another factory overseas than to ship containers of glass items![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ritzyvintage, post: 3623752, member: 18191"]Sowerby, England is a possible contender. here is another by the factory. [IMG]https://th.bing.com/th/id/Rc38e119b087dcce8a80115e6332eed51?rik=FbondQNT5yGYxg&riu=http%3a%2f%2fvictorianpressedglass.com%2fimages%2fsowerby%2fjet%2fsowerby_jet_1.jpg&ehk=tfnsMGL%2blsooU269jMjHxLcmUqnyH0rhjj%2fz3LUER1Q%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw[/IMG] Although Sowerby designed & produced some incredible examples of their own, they also had a habit of purchasing, exchanging and using other factories moulds under licence. Including certain pattern-types by Fenton, and European factories too. Removing the signatures, makers marks and/or numbers was also common place, but by no means was this done illegally or in order to dupe. Sowerby, were not the only factory either that adopted this practice.... It was far more cost effective to sell a mould to another factory overseas than to ship containers of glass items![/QUOTE]
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