Topic: Can anyone identify the signature, irridescent blob - ID = Lanmara

[isleofwight collector]

Hi - I have this irridescent blob really which is signed and dated 1999 - but thats all I can tell.

I've had it in my collection for a few years since buying @ a bootsale, but I would be intrested in who made this nice blob.

Any help would be greatfully received.

Thanks Carol

[antiquerose123]

Hi there -- just a wild, wild, wild, wild, wild -- Wild guess....but could it say *Hungary* on the bottom??

Can you post a closer, cropped pic of just the writing?  Thanks

[Paul S.]

hello Rose.........just thinking outloud really, but if in fact something was made in what we call Hungary, might it not however say Magyar instead. , or is this me just trying to be too clever.?    -     from my teenage years of philately I seem to remember that was the word shown on their stamps.

[chopin-liszt]

Lanmara?
I've searched here and found several references to this Scottish glassmaker, but all the links and images seem to have gone.

[isleofwight collector]

Thanks everyone & Sue you have solved the mystery again I can now see it reads Lanmara!   :hiclp: :thup:

Carol

[chopin-liszt]

This is the only active thing I can find on them - found in Frank's Scotland's Glass site.

http://www.macgillivrays.co.uk/lanmara.html

Sadly, I can find no mention of them at all in "Scotland's Glass; 400 years of Glassmaking" by Shiona Airlie and Brian Blench, just recently published by Cortex Design.  

[Anne]

These might help:
Glass artists Paul Brown and Katherine Dearness.
http://www.caithness.org/fpb/february2002/princesyouthbusinessterust/index.htm

http://www.caithness-business.co.uk/business.php?id=171

http://www.mylocalservices.co.uk/Caithness/Glass_Products/1762426/Lanmara_Glass_Studio.html

http://www.firstfoot.com/tour/john-ogroats-craft-shops-and-glass-blowing-studio-1951.htm

Please note that the phone number given in these is not Lanmara Glass any more, but belongs to a private line.

[chopin-liszt]

You've obviously got contacts in cyberspace, Anne! I found those - except for that informative and useful first one!
Names of the glassmakers found!  :rah:

[chopin-liszt]

Nothing in the new Hajdamch either, under Lanmara, Brown or Dearness.

[rosieposie]

I know we are a little way on in this now,  but I put in a bid and just lost out to this piece of glass :

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&item=230738578393 

I thought it looked familiar as I have a little orange iridescent cat I bought for a couple of quid ages ago, and could find nothing about the signature on it....in truth, I don't even think it said it was signed in the listing,  I just liked the look of it, and I collect cats (glass ones!).

Anyway I had another look at mine and realised it said Lanmara 2002, so I am pleased to have an identity for mine, and will try to put a picture up of it.

So thank you Anne and Sue,  now I know who made my orange cat,  even though I didn't get the black one. :cry: