Topic: Early Mdina etched signature

[mhgcgolfclub]

Thank you very much Sue for confirming what I thought and hoped. It just did not quite look like a normal Mdina mark . It just looked more like Michael Harris's style of writing.
So it would seem that there were not a huge amount of items signed this way and its probably the next best thing to a fully signed piece.

Thanks again.

Roy

[chopin-liszt]

I would describe it much more as a "nice little oddity" rather than something than could be seen as "close to fully signed".

[Baked_Beans]

This one looks a bit like Christine's example but it's big and bold (the 'd' is about 1.5 cm tall ) ...could it be a Dobson 'Mdina'  ?

[chopin-liszt]

No, that's the spikey style we used to think was Dobson, but we now know to be Marie. Less common than the loopy one. 

[Baked_Beans]

Thanks Sue,

How did you find out that it's Marie's hand , just out of curiosity ? So the loopy Mdina is someone else other than Marie  Do you have an example of a Dobson Mdina  ?

[Baked_Beans]

There is a descriptive  label with this one Patrick (see photos in description ) .. looks post 1985 perhaps ?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-RETRO-BEAUTIFUL-MDINA-MALTESE-MALTA-ART-GLASS-VASE-/201666766049?hash=item2ef446a4e1:g:vPsAAOSwvzRXy8ZR

[chopin-liszt]

That got sorted out in another thread, when Marie joined in.
She mostly did the packing, Dobson made most of the Mdina marks, Marie only did it when she had time and Dobson didn't.

Before that thread brought this to light, we had thought Dobson had made the spikey looking *signature* mark and that Said had made the other signature one.

But the same spikey script is also used for just the Mdina maker's mark on some pieces.

[Baked_Beans]

I think you might be thinking of this thread here Sue..........

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,61584.msg346878.html#msg346878

It's mainly about the Dobson signature rather than the ' Mdina' name itself . I think I read somewhere that Harris and Dobson had similar handwriting , copperplate , so the spiked Mdina could be Dobson (as you suggested in the thread linked above) . I'm not a handwriting expert so I'm keeping an open mind.

[chopin-liszt]

Yes, but on the examples with the "artist mark", the word Mdina is also written, so that can be compared.

What we got from that thread was that the artist marks were made by either Marie or Dobson, and how each of them wrote Mdina, and that Marie had the spikey writing, Dobson the more rounded.
This was contrary to what I'd been told, which was that Dobson had spikey writing and the rounded style was Said.

The spikey writing looks a little bit more like Michael Harris' writing, but not enough that they could ever be confused. It's a lot bigger and more coarse, just for a start.