Topic: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?

[josordoni]

This is a lovely weight, a rather chalky swirl like a coiled snake, with a deeply impressed mark - I have filled it with talcum powder as it didn't show well in the original photo.

Does anyone recognise this mark?

It came with another that is etched Trout Studio, that I think is USA - does anyone have any info on them?  I found a mention on a gallery site, but nothing more.

Pink swirl:
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-6710
pink swirl base
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-6709


Trout Studios weight
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-6712
Trout Studios base
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-6711

Thanks!

[Della]

Hi Lynne,

I found this little bit of info on Trout Studio: http://www.stauntonweb.com/holt.html

 

[josordoni]

Thanks Della! 

Funny thing search engines, you can put something in one day and get one thing, then someone else puts much the same thing and gets something different!

[Lustrousstone]

I too have a paperweight with the same impressed mark - hasn't anybody got any ideas
See here

[josordoni]

Seems not Christine... we shall have to make it up.

What shall we call it?  It could be Y for Ysart of course...

[josordoni]

Hi Lynne,

I found this little bit of info on Trout Studio: http://www.stauntonweb.com/holt.html

 

Oh I meant to ask... what is the offhand technique this link mentions??

(shrugs and tries to look offhand herself)

[Leni]

IMO Christine's weight looks a bit like a Mdina or Mtarfa

Is the impressed mark definitely a deliberate mark, rather than just an indentation that didn't get ground out because it was deeper than the rest of the pontil scar? 

[Lustrousstone]

It's most definitely impressed, and like a well squished msmall prunt. My mark is exactly the same as Lynne's, which is why I didn't bother photograhing it  I did vaguely wonder if it was supposed to be a glassblower.

[josordoni]

IMO Christine's weight looks a bit like a Mdina or Mtarfa

Is the impressed mark definitely a deliberate mark, rather than just an indentation that didn't get ground out because it was deeper than the rest of the pontil scar? 

Hi Leni, no doubt it is deliberate, the edges are smooth, and it is a good 1 cm deep.  I talc'd mine because the patterning visible through the clear glass means it is impossible to see the mark on a photo.

[Leni]

I did vaguely wonder if it was supposed to be a glassblower.

Oh, what is the company that uses the glassblower on its label?   (Memory problems due to age - see cafe thread! )