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Another "how did they do that?" thread - carved vase with ? maker's mark
krsilber:
Once again, I'm intrigued by a piece I can't quite figure out. It's in a thread in the Ebay Pottery, Glass and Porcelain forum, and a few methods have been proposed for the way the texture was done - etching, sandblasting, wheel cut (nixed)...and my totally off the wall hypothesis that something (e.g. clay) was applied to the inside of a mold then tooled to create the features. I don't really believe the hypothesis because I don't know if it's possible...is it even theoretically possible?
Here are links to photos of the piece:
http://www.spiretech.com/~argentpickle/lorraine%201.jpg
http://www.spiretech.com/~argentpickle/lorraine%202.jpg (inside view)
http://www.spiretech.com/~argentpickle/lorraine%204.jpg (bottom, which says Lorraine, France, and has a mark of sorts)
http://www.spiretech.com/~argentpickle/lorraine%205.jpg (another bottom shot)
And a link to the thread: http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?messageID=520365204�
Thanks for any input!
Tigerchips:
The mark in the centre is probably the 'FBS' mark.
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,183.0.html
Frank:
It looks like the mould was decorated with acid etching.
Well spotted on the FBS mark, almost certainly 30s
KevinH:
I was also wondering about the central portion being an "FBS" mark - but why would it have "Trade Mark" added? If the "FBS" - as it appears in the various ones we know about - was a general requirement for import to (perhaps) the USA, then it seems odd that one version would be stated as a trade mark.
Frank:
It isn't an import mark, has to be a wholesaler retailer. So far Trade Mark searches have got nowhere, but more are being added all the time so one day it should show up. Never tried to find it as a Canadian trade mark though...
The acid mark bears no relationship to any of the listed Lorraine marks so must be our old friend again. Perhaps some work with graphite will show up some more of the mark to prove it is the FBS one.
That trade mark has been added is useful but almost every possible variation in how the mark is done has been seen. This example does tend to prove the mark was added by the glass works rather than the importer... although that was already fairly obvious in that the actual design used was consistent per glassworks.
Back to the vase:
Verame used their name as their mark with a large V and the rest vertical down the right of the V.
Verrerie d'Art Lorraine is almost certainly right for this, set up by one of Daum's to produce cheap mass volume including cameo, but the cameo had distinctive markings. The patterning is more consistent with acid etched metal mould rather than etched glass. Are the clear portions raised or depressed. Technique is the same, apply resist and etch but using a different acid.
Search on the board for more about the technique.
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