Topic: Small , footed pwt , Isle of Wight Studio Glass , signed by Michael Harris .

[Baked_Beans]

This is signed by Michael Harris , only 5.5 cm tall , with footed base. The label is 2.2 cm in length . Any idea of when it was made please ?

Cheers, Mike

[glassobsessed]

Pretty sure these pedestal weights are mostly 1973, once the studio started using the flame mark (sometime in 1974) weights were made without a pedestal and with an impressed flame mark. The exact dates changes were made were not recorded and memories fade...

John

[chopin-liszt]

I can't find my book, but I believe you are right, John. The pedestal ones are early and didn't go on for too long.

[marc]

Hi,

I have found this:
"Michael Harris founded Isle of Wight Glass in 1973 . Before that he helped establish Mdina Glass in Malta."
Paperweights of the 19th & 20th centuries. Anne Metcalfe.
I have got this one.

Regards.
Marc.

[daveweight]

I was talking to Timothy Harris recently and mentioned these weights with a kind of foot, Tim said in the early days they did not have any grinding machines to finish the base of weights off so they put a simple foot on instead.
Dave

[chopin-liszt]

There are also small Azurene pots with pedestal bases from around this time.

[Baked_Beans]

Thanks all very much, just happened to find the MDG weight as well today ...could have been bought around the same period of time.

Dave thanks too .... there is no polishing going on  to the base , just pressed down on a metal surface it would seem but there is a ring mark about 2mm in from the edge that goes all the way around the circumference of the base which would suggest some sort of ring mould .

Cheers, Mike