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Author Topic: Unusual bird shaped Pontil mark. ID = Midsummer Glass  (Read 3752 times)

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Offline Lustrousstone

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Re: Unusual bird shaped Pontil mark.
« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2011, 07:15:33 AM »
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Re: Unusual bird shaped Pontil mark.
« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2011, 11:23:29 AM »
Many thanks Christine, I shall attend to that right now.
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Re: Unusual bird shaped Pontil mark.
« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2011, 11:38:25 AM »
Wow! So it isn't a bird!!  That just shows you the POWER of suggestion.  Having said it was a bird in the title, all I coud see was a bird with the sun behind it!!

So glad you have got something to go on now Bryn....keep us informed......in the meantime I will start looking for something else! :usd:
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Re: Unusual bird shaped Pontil mark.
« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2011, 12:10:25 PM »
Hi Sue,
Still could be a bird, I noticed in on an old 2006 old GMS topic of mine that one of the Midsummer glass blowers had moved on to open her own Art Glass company and named it Phoenix Glass.  There could well be a link there. Anyway, I have sent her an email with photo's and hopefully they may provide an answer to my original question.
Cheers,
Bryn
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Re: Unusual bird shaped Pontil mark.
« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2011, 01:53:55 PM »
Confirmed by Ron Wheeler (Artius Glass) as being made by Midsummer Glass, probably in the mid to late 1980s. Dillon Clarke ran the studio (she was a student of the London Glass Blowing Workshop), Ron was her agent for several years.

Thank you Ron. :hiclp:

I will add the photo of the pontil mark to Glass Gallery, labels, marks and signatures: http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/index.php?cat=6&page=1

John
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Re: Unusual bird shaped Pontil mark.
« Reply #15 on: March 01, 2011, 02:14:59 PM »
Well, you have been busy John....I met Ron and his wife at the Fair and what a mine of information they have between them......lovely people.

So is it a bird in a sun, or just a sun???  Do we know that yet?

Whatever the outcome, bird or not, you have a lovely piece of glass there Bryn.
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Re: Unusual bird shaped Pontil mark.
« Reply #16 on: March 01, 2011, 02:18:03 PM »
I don't know, I didn't think to ask. :-[

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Re: Unusual bird shaped Pontil mark.
« Reply #17 on: March 01, 2011, 02:26:28 PM »
That's great news John, many thanks, I knew you would come up trumps.
The jury's still out on Phoenix Rosieposie, Dillon Clarke did do to Phoenix Glass but I am now very happy with Ron's info so we'll stay with Midsummer. Now what am I going to do with it.

Bryn
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