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Author Topic: is this a murano bird/duck please can anyone id please?  (Read 8252 times)

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Offline Lustrousstone

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Re: is this a murano bird/duck please can anyone id please?
« Reply #10 on: September 30, 2008, 07:18:58 PM »
I saw a new one of these along with a penguin and a dog the other day and would say they were most probably Chinese: matt bottoms, spurious air bubbles, generally not very good quality

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Re: is this a murano bird/duck please can anyone id please?
« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2008, 07:39:11 PM »
Hi I think your right it is not that nice, but my mum loves it  :-*
All the best
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Re: is this a murano bird/duck please can anyone id please?
« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2008, 08:41:13 PM »
I vote Formia.

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Re: is this a murano bird/duck please can anyone id please?
« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2008, 12:08:34 PM »
Not at the price these were selling at new. In the style of maybe

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Re: is this a murano bird/duck please can anyone id please?
« Reply #14 on: October 02, 2008, 03:28:39 PM »
I saw a bird very similar to this today in the British Heart Foundation shop, but i could be very off the mark
http://britishheartfoundation.sandbag.uk.com/Store/DII-366-1-large+glass+penguin+ornament+.html    Scroll down.

Not exactky the same as the one i saw but will give you an idea, also lots of bubble paperweights and some that looked remarkably like Adam Jablonsk !!

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Re: is this a murano bird/duck please can anyone id please?
« Reply #15 on: October 02, 2008, 05:29:41 PM »
That's the ones I was refering to above...they had a whole range of these in the London area shops 6 months back, but now just have the Adam Jablonski lookalikes, bubble pw's and some clunky solid animals. Every BHF shop has them by the ton and very cheap so I'd expect to see them for many years to come.

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Re: is this a murano bird/duck please can anyone id please?
« Reply #16 on: October 03, 2008, 12:07:51 PM »
I have been thinking about this thread for days because I knew I had seen these somewhere :huh:.....I think they are Crystal Clear Collectables....... might be imported by Lesser & Pavey Ltd, ( of Leonardo Giftware fame)but not 100% certain.  There are a few on eBay at the moment, might be worth you looking to see if this is what you have.
Rosie.

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Re: is this a murano bird/duck please can anyone id please?
« Reply #17 on: October 03, 2008, 02:31:55 PM »
If they are, then China is the right answer

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Re: is this a murano bird/duck please can anyone id please?
« Reply #18 on: August 16, 2011, 08:30:59 AM »
 :thud:
Sorry, I can't see how anybody could possibly think these were made by Mike Hunter (Twists Glass) - Mike is an absolutely top class masterglassmaker, there is simply no comparison of quality between these things and Mike's work. Honest!
Cheers, Sue M. (she/her)

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Re: is this a murano bird/duck please can anyone id please?
« Reply #19 on: August 16, 2011, 03:33:41 PM »
I have seen these on Ebay being sold as Dino Martens' design.  Dino had nothing to do with this design but I believe the Chinese did.

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