The AEAA is very pleased to present this next piece of valuable English Victorian hand blown Opalescent Vaseline glass items from the respected Loren (Butch) Morse collection. This lot represents a stunning and Rare ca. 1890s Boulton Mills dual handled bulbous vase, finished in a unique Boulton Mills sky to Royal blue crimped & pincered vertical six point star rim. The Cranberry & Opalescent applied flowers are brilliant, and the recurved stylized swan neck flying buttress handles are truly custom. Our rare Boulton & Mills treasure explodes under black light, and is in wonderful condition. This vase is a must for the eclectic English Victorian Vaseline collector. Our beauty weighs 1# 8 oz., measuring 6.5 x 5.5 x 6 inches tall. Loren Morse was a respected family man and Vaseline collector, and his untimely passing a year ago was a blow to everyone. The Morse family gratefully appreciates your participation in this Estate sale. xxxxxxxxxxxxx. William Webb Boulton, son of Richard Boulton, was a farmer married to Jane Webb, whose mother was the sister of Edward Webb. William Webb Boulton asked his second cousin Fredrick James Mills to join in a partnership operating the Audnam Glass-works. Fredrick Mills quit his partnership in Richardson, Mills & Smith at Holloway End Glass-works to join Boulton, and on August 13, 1861, the firm of Boulton and Mills was formed. Under new management, the glass-works immediately changed the style of glassware they produced. Boulton and Mills began making contemporary glassware in the prevalent style. The firm was noted for flower stands, patenting their epergne single center trumpet + suspended cornucopia in 1864, expanding the line on January 25, 1871, when the firm registered their first design for a flower stand with a mirror base. In 1868, Boulton & Mills followed the 1867 Thomas Webb lead by patenting their own design of reeded applied pitcher handle, spouts & feet. They upgraded in 1870, concurrent with the Hodgetts, Richardson & Son reeded pattern. A continuous registration of flower holders were developed and documented by Boulton and Mills. In 1873, they registered plateau centerpieces decorated with long leaf-shaped components. Philip Pargeter of Red House Glass-works was also making these types of pieces. These centerpieces were typical in their use of fern leaves usually placed alternately with the flower holders or basket supports. An example of this was registered by Philip Pargeter in 1873, where the fern leaf components were arranged in a circle around a solitary center flower holder.In 1877, William Webb Boulton and his partner Fredrick James Mills renewed their partnership, and in 1879, Boulton and Mills submitted a patent for Vasa Murrhina glass. By the 1880s the Venetian style of glass was very popular at this time. In an effort to supply English demand, William Webb Boulton patented Improvements in Decorating Glass with Stripes and Nacre de Perle in 1885. Nacre de Perle was a form of Mother of Pearl satin glass. This is the first known patent to give name to a specific type of MOP satin glass. The lease on the glass-works expired in 1888. Frederick James Mills retired and later passed in 1908 at the age of 73 yrs. At the time of his retirement, William Webb Boulton brought his sons Harry Boulton and William Boulton into the business. William Webb Boulton passed in 1892, and his widow, Jane Mills, was accepted as a partner in the business with her sons Harry and William Boulton. In 1903, Jane Mills and Oswald George Meatyard left the firm in the hands of Jane’s two sons, and George Meatyard subsequently passed in 1906. Boulton & Mills Audnam Glass Works was one of the larger suppliers of hand blown Victorian glass, having achieved 37 designs registered from 1864 to 1911.In 1911, Richard Harry Boulton and William Webb Boulton made an agreement for five years and the firm continued trading as Boulton and Mills. Again in 1920, the partners renewed the lease on the Glass-works with the trustees for Lord Dudley. Richard Webb Boulton passed in 1922, and his son Howard Gilbert Boulton MC succeeded him in the business, forming an LLC partnership with Howard and his uncle William Webb Boulton. Two years later in 1924, William Webb Boulton decided to leave the partnership, transferring ownership to Howard Gilbert Boulton & Charles Herbert Thompson. for the same amount. Unfortunately the firm now lacked the imagination of its Victorian founders and fell victim to the Great Depression and closed all operations in 1926. The glass-works sat vacant until 1928 when it was demolished.

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