Topic: Please with this signature on engraved Caithness vase.

[scavo]

This Caithness vase is alexandrite or neodymium. It changes from blue to lilac under different lighting conditions.

It is signed on the base but I cannot read the name. Hopefully someone with good knowledge can help.

[chriscooper]

The word is Harebells from the etched design, signature more likely to be the engraver than designer?

Chris

[ahremck]

I suspect the other is WB = Willie Bain and that he has used the final upstroke of the W as the downstroke of the B.

Ross

[scavo]

Thank you both so much.
I'm no botanist and could only think of bluebells and snowdrops. I have never heard of Harebells.

Thanks for the nod to Willie Bain. I would never have seen that. I could see LB but it didn't look quite right.

Thanks again. This isn't my thing so will put it on ebay this weekend.

[Lustrousstone]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campanula_rotundifolia

[scavo]

Thanks Christine. Harebell is a bluebell after all!

[Lustrousstone]

Only in Scotland!!

[Anne]

Harebells and bluebells ain't the same thing at all... although in Scotland the Harebell is called the Bluebell, so it would more properly be a Scottish Bluebell. . Harebells are very pretty and much more delicate than the English bluebells, which are gloriously sturdy rampant things!

[scavo]

Harebells and bluebells ain't the same thing at all... although in Scotland the Harebell is called the Bluebell, so it would more properly be a Scottish Bluebell. . Harebells are very pretty and much more delicate than the English bluebells, which are gloriously sturdy rampant things!

NO comment (have a Scottish ex)
I'm thinking of butting bulbs in my front lawn of meadow grass. I want bluebells (English - now they have been given such an accolade) and snowdrops. Anyone know of gloriously sturdy, rampant snowdrops?

[Anne]

Snowdrops are glorious sturdy and rampant anyhow! My garden is full of them and they survive everything! Mine are the semi-doubles and they are gorgeous.