manufacturers' labels & marks (T to Z)

Tudor Crystal
(see Stourbridge Glass Co)

United States Glass Co, USA (c 1910 - 1930s)

moulded mark

Universal Glass Products Co, USA (established c 1920s)

moulded mark

E Val & Cie, France (c 1920s - 1940s)
(formerly Maison Effler)

acid-cameo (from 1928)

Val St Lambert, Belgium (established 1825)

(with or without BELGIUM) enamelled

acid cameo

acid cameo

acid cameo

paper label c 1920s

relief-moulded mark c 1920s

paper label

engraved mark (design by Charles Graffart) dated 1951

paper label 1930s

cameo'VSL' design on acid-etched vase c 1890s

gilded on same vase

relief-moulded mark c 1920s

engraved post-War

engraved c 2000

G Vallon, France (c 1930s)

relief-moulded mark

Cristalleries de Vannes-le-Châtel, France (established 1960)

acid-etched

E Varnish, England (1849 - 1852)

relief-moulded plug in base of 'mercury glass' piece ('E VARNISH & CO, PATENT, LONDON')

Vasart, Scotland (1946 - 1963)

paper label (early)

metallic label (black on silver) 1946 - 1963

acid-etched 1946 - 1963

Venini, Italy (established 1925)

metallic label (cream on gold) c 1950s

acid-etched c 1935 - 1943

acid-etched 1930 - 1943

acid-etched c 1946 - c 1965

paper label c 1921 - 1925

vibro-engraved c 1965 - 1970

vibro-engraved (with TW for Tapio Wirkkala) 1968

acid-etched 1950s - 1960s

diamond-point (design by Fulvio Bianconi) dated 1993

diamond-point dated 1994

plastic label (black on clear)

Verlys, France (c 1920 - 1955)

engraved

moulded mark

Vetri d'Arte Fontana, Italy (established 1881)
(enamelled items signed 'Vedar' produced from 1925 to 1933)

scratched into enamelled decoration

scratched into enamelled decoration

Vetri Murano (established 1981)
(not actually a company, but a trademark created by the Venice Glass Consortium, sponsored by the Industrialist Association of the Province of Venice and the Venice Craftsmen's Association, and for use only by those companies owning glassworks on the island of Murano)

printed label

Villeroy & Boch, Germany (established 1748)

moulded mark c 1960

John Walsh Walsh, England (1850 - 1951)

acid-etched 1926 - c 1930

acid-etched c 1930 - 1951

facsimile signature (design by Clyne Farquharson) c 1939 - 1942

Verrerie et Ateliers Waltersperge, France (established c 1900)

acid-etched

August Walther & Söhne, Germany (established 1865)

metallic 'Oralit' label (black on silver) c 1932 - 1940

Roland Ward, England & Kenya (established late 19th Century)
The Rowland Ward company made its name in the late 19th & early 20th Centuries as taxidermists. Responding to demand, the company expanded into actually arranging African safaris, & retailing (from shops in London & Nairobi) all kinds of goods relating to big-game hunting. The labels below were both on the same set of drinking-glasses, which were engraved with African animals. These particular glasses were made in West Germany, but they were probably also sourced from Bohemia

paper label (blue on white) c 1950s

metallic label (gold on yellow) c 1950s

Waterford Crystal, Ireland (established 1951)

acid-etched

acid-etched

paper label

company logo 1990s

Thomas Webb & Corbett, England (1897 - 1986)
(name changed to Webb Corbett in 1953, bought out by Royal Doulton 1969, name completely dropped 1986)

acid-etched c 1930 - 1947	acid-etched c 1930 - 1947 (from a photo)	silver foil label c 1930s - 1940s
company logo c 1970	acid-etched mark c 1970	metallic label (black on gold) c 1970

Key to acid-etched symbol (left): 1947-1952: S (Stourbridge), T (Tutbury), or (both factories) in centre of mark 1952-1959: last 2 figures of year in centre of mark 1959-1965: centre of mark left blank

Thomas Webb & Sons, England (1840 - 1990)

acid-etched (on RD number 87918) 25th November 1887

acid-etched (on Queen's Burmese ware) RD number for 5th September 1887

acid-etched (on Queen's Burmese ware) c 1887 - 1913

acid-etched (on 'Bronze' glass vase) from 1878

acid-etched (on 'Iris' glass vase) from 1878

acid-etched 1930s

acid-etched c 1906 - 1935

acid-etched c 1935 - 1949

acid-etched c 1950 - 1966

acid-etched c 1950 - 1966

cameo signature on 'Cameo Fleur' vase c 1930s

sand-blasted Aug 1966 - Aug 1980

sand-blasted Sept 1980 onward

Wedgwood Glass, England (1969 - 1988)
(see King's Lynn Glass)

Franz Welz, Bohemia (1728 - c 1920s)
(glassworks also known as Antonienhütte)

paper or metallic label (initials for Franz Welz, Klostergrab ) c 1920s to 1930s

Westmoreland Glass Co, USA (c 1910 - 1984)

paper label (trademark registered c 1910)

moulded mark

Whitefriars, England (1961 -1980)
(established 1834 as James Powell & Sons, changed company name to Whitefriars in 1961)

impressed stamp (early 19th Century)

paper label c 1870 - c 1923

company logo (used 1906 - 1930)

Wedgwood backstamp (used on creamware made for Powell's) 1910 - 23

metallic label (blue on silver) c 1940 - c 1963

paper label c 1950 - c 1963

Wedgwood backstamp (used on creamware made for Powell's) 1907-23

paper label c 1923 - c 1950

paper label 1963 - 1979

Wiener Werkstätte, Austria (1903 - 1932)

acid-etched

wheel-engraved

acid-etched (produced by Ludwig Moser) after 1922

W.M.F. (Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik), Germany (established 1853)
(art glass first produced in 1881, with larger scale production from 1883)

paper label 1930s - 1960s

paper label c 1930s - 1972

metallic label (black on silver) c 1972 - 1980

Wood Brothers, England (1854 - 1981)

impressed mark

Vladimir Zahour, Czech Republic (post-War)

wheel-engraved

Vetreria Fratelli Zanetti, Italy (established 1956)

diamond-point c 1970s

Železnobrodské Sklo, Czechoslovakia (post-War)

company logo	metallic label (silver on yellow) 1950s to 1960s
metallic label (silver on blue) 1960s to 1980s	metallic label (silver on blue) 1990s onwards