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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: josordoni on September 26, 2006, 11:48:04 AM

Title: g signature
Post by: josordoni on September 26, 2006, 11:48:04 AM

I'm looking at a lampworked paperweight with a small G cane (black on a white background) in the base - anyone have any idea who this might be?

Title: Paperweight with G Cane
Post by: daveweight on September 26, 2006, 11:56:25 AM

Hi Lynne
The only artist I know who uses a signature cane like this is Randall Grubb - an American Paperweight maker.
Have you got a copy of Andy Dohan's book "Doctionary of Paperwegiht Canes" as it will show it in there
Dave

Title: g signature
Post by: josordoni on September 26, 2006, 12:17:07 PM

thanks Dave - I am very thin on books at the moment - I keep spending my money on stock, and have none to spare for the reference stuff  :cry:

This does have a very modern American look about it so that might well be on the money.

Title: g signature
Post by: josordoni on September 26, 2006, 12:27:16 PM

Great, now that I have a name, I have checked it out, and this is correct.  thanks again.

Title: others
Post by: wrightoutlook on September 26, 2006, 01:05:36 PM

In addition to Randall Grubb, John and Gertrude Gentile also used a signature cane with a G in it. Robert Grablow, of course, used the RG signature cane.

Also, Perthshire used letter canes for its PP14 and PP32 paperweights. In the case of a letter G cane, that would have been a PP14 from 1975. The PP14 used every letter over the course of the years it was made; A for 1969 through Z in 1994. There are no other factory designating signatures in these weights - no letter P for Perthshire. Of course, in 1984, in the alphabet sequence, the P was used.

The PP32 used J through R from 1978 to 1986.

Can you post a photo of the weight? I'm sure we'd all like to see it.

Title: Re: others
Post by: josordoni on September 26, 2006, 01:18:06 PM

Quote from: "wrightoutlook"

Can you post a photo of the weight? I'm sure we'd all like to see it.

I don't have one at the moment - it really depends on whether I get to buy it or not ..... :lol:

If I do then you will get it in glorious technicolour. It is a lovely lovely weight.

If I don't you will just get me whining about it  :roll:

Title: ha
Post by: wrightoutlook on September 26, 2006, 04:17:07 PM

Hey, sometimes whining is a good thing. :wink:

Title: g signature
Post by: josordoni on September 26, 2006, 04:20:36 PM

Let me tell you sometimes it is the ONLY good thing I can do...

 :lol:  :lol: