Molineaux Webb Catalogue - Drinking Vessels

The numbering system and strange abbreviations on some of these items is not really understood - ideas welcome! Pinning any real world examples of these designs to a particular glass company is virtually impossible. Catalogues from Percival Vickers and companies in the northeast show a similar range of items, and even the more elaborate designs are seen across company catalogues. Although the vast majority of glass here were probably plain flint, an example tumbler from Percival Vickers is known, which was made in uranium which you can see in plate 8 of Barrie Skelcher's article here (opens pdf).

What further complicates identification is that the Manchester glass houses were known to collaborate across their ranges, such that the Molineaux Webb catalogue might contain pieces from Percival Vickers, and vice versa. This may explain why some distinctive designs of drinking vessel appear in both catalogues.

Goblets and Ale Glasses

Now a particluar mention has to be made of this item. It sits on the final page of the catalogue, surrounded by and completely out of place with the frosted band tableware items which the company registered in the late 1860s - it plainly does not go with them. So why is item number 1 at the very end of the catalogue, not matching any other drinking vessel or anything on the same page?

It is doubtful this was the first pressed item produced by the factory, as pressing of drinking vessels was mastered a little later than pressing of plates. But it might represent the first pressed goblet design from the firm, which would place it early to mid 1840s.

113 probably dates to the 1850s

Tumblers

Examples

A match for Grog 0_129, thanks to Bonnie for the image

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