Topic: Glass identification help!

[Meggie2]

Hi,
Just wondered if anyone had a clue to the signature on the base of this pink glass vase?  It will be pretty modern I expect and might be Scottish but that's all I can surmise.... any further help would be great!  Thank you in anticipation!

[Lustrousstone]

Welcome to the board. Nice clear sig picture but a picture of the whole thing always helps too... 

[Meggie2]

thank you Lustrousstone
Here's my best attempt at the whole shebang!

[Lustrousstone]

That's a classic Caithness vase in neodymium glass. The signature is likely to be the engraver but I can't make it out.

[Meggie2]

Aha! So it is Caithness - I wondered, but assumed it would have the Caithness name somewhere, or even a sticker attached!  Perhaps it did once upon a time... thank you Lustrousstone, you're help has been much appreciated today   

[flying free]

I think it says Nole Dole or Role 99 (Could be 77)
but don't know anything about Caithness so I'm not sure who it might be.  Sorry.
The nearest to that name I could find is Norman Orr but I've no idea whether he might have done something like this I'm afraid.
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Looking here it doesn't say he did anything for Caithness glass so possibly a red herring. 
http://www.scotlandsglass.co.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55:norman-orr-1924-1993&catid=16:glass-makers-a-c&Itemid=8
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[Meggie2]

Thank Flying Free
Interesting ideas regarding the signature (if that's what it is).... I read it as Nougy !!!  I think your suggestions are much better, i particularly like Roll or Noll followed by a number (99 or 77), could be a pattern number of some sort perhaps.  So much food for thought!

[Lustrousstone]

Looking at the Caithness book indicates that the design is sand blasted, not engraved. The number is most likely the date, 1999, but the list of engravers and sandblasters is no help, but does imply it's not complete.

[Meggie2]

Ah, that would make sense and fit with the time period I had in mind.  The vase was my mums and I knew it wasn't something I had seen as a child so felt it must have been a more contemporary purchase.  I think it may be a 'seconds'  as it has what I think is a flaw in the glass around the rim  but 'inside' the glass  i.e no roughness or chip to feel when you run a finger around the edge.  It doesn't matter to me, I just wanted to find out a bit more about what it was and where it came from.  Thank you both for your help and experience I am very grateful x

[Lustrousstone]

A second is unlikely to be sand blasted; it would have been rejected before that. And if the sandblasting was second, then unsigned.