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Show and tell - Caithness new buys - Franco Toffolo Stardust no 48 of 50
jakgene:
a limited edition no 48 of 50. by Franco Toffolo.
Still in its original box - which is the blue leatherette type - lined with white, so I am not sure of when this was made. It still had some point of sale materials in the box, undated, but one of them shows the tartan twist vase range - so 1996 I think as it shows the topaz tartan twist. Does anyone know when the packaging changed from the Blue leatherette to the white Cardboard? Frank do you know please ???
It is 12 inches or 30 cm tall, and weighs over 2kg - more than my kitchen scales can measure.
The blue is a dark sky blue - and the gold sparkle is amazing. Interior cased with white.
I like it! ;D
jakgene:
Box and POS material
JAK
chopin-liszt:
Verrrrry hinterestink!
This style of vase - masses of copper aventurine on a mottled coloured background, pulled into spirals was also the style of stuff he was making a lot while working with John Deacons and Willie Manson in his recent retirement years - he also made a lot of Vasart-style Tulip lamps in this exhuberant style - I had been under the impression it was a "diversion" into Ysart-style glass he'd been getting into - I hadn't realised this was also a Caithness style!
I imagine yours, as a limited Edition Caithness piece, is rather unusual, but pieces like this may well turn up - but not marked as Caithness and not of a Caithness origin.
Frank:
No idea on box changes, might have more data in backlog... (sorry)
jakgene:
Thanks Sue and Frank
Sue - interesting to know he has made others in this "style" (if that is the word). I'm afraid I know very little about him - only what I have learned from Scotland's Glass and Google since buying this vase.
Frank do you want more photos to add to the backlog?
JAK
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