Topic: Malta Decorative Glass footed swan, fish, penguin with labels !! & others !

[Baked_Beans]

I found this collection today ! I think the Whale is MDG (similar to one with label ) and I suspect the last pink duck is also. Hope you find them interesting !! More to follow...

[Baked_Beans]

More.....

[Baked_Beans]

This duck is the one I'm not so sure about but has a slight sticky patch the same size as labels to the base.

[Tigerchips]

I've not heard of this company before.

Deep down in the back of my head i thought the blue/white fish or dolphin was from China....

...after reading more about it i see that MDG was founded by Maltese government in conjunction with the Chinese.

...i see. 

[Baked_Beans]

Here is another topic on the Whale , .....

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,2982.10.html    (see end of second page for pic.)

[keith]

I posted a green fish like your blue one and seem to remember it being id'd as Taiwan

[chopin-liszt]

And I've seen red ones - I'm pretty jolly sure they were from Taiwan. I suspect a label has been moved from a bit of MDG and put on a Taiwanese bit.
It bears no resemblance to any bit of MDG I've seen - not in terms of colour (I don't think they used white), or in terms of construction - the base looks moulded, altogether, it's just completely wrong.

I don't think the duck is MDG - I really do not believe they used neodynum glass!

Everything else is right for MDG - I suspect the penguin is an apprentice piece - not Vicente Boffo!

[Lustrousstone]

The fish are everywhere in various colours; perhaps it was sold in the shop. The colour certainly isn't MDG. The neodymium duck is pretty common too. I have his brother in uranium, perhaps Murano or Czech http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=1457

These expensive glass colorants weren't used in Malta.

Perhaps be cautious; those labels don't actually say Made in Malta.

[Baked_Beans]

I agree Sue, I bought them in a charity shop and so I wouldn't think there would be an issue with labels. I think the fish could have been imported from China and sold through MDG with one of their stickers. The penguin looks a bit ugly for a Boffo ! The duck also !

[Baked_Beans]

Thanks very much Christine,

Well that's the fish and duck ruled out then !  But I had to buy the whole lot ...just in case !!