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This unusually large piece of ivory cameo glass appears in the Thomas Webb & Sons Price Book and the factory pattern books as design I522. This is listed as an 11 1/2 inch vase. Making (Per Turm) 25, etching 18/-, painting 3/6. It sold for 38/- (thirty-eight shillings or £1.90 in today's money). See R & L Grover, English Cameo Glass, p.241 and p.450, drawing S633. The original drawing, reproduced here, is from the Thomas Webb & Sons' Pattern Books Principally For Cameo Glass By The Woodall Team, published by Richard Dennis, p.56.