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Title: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: josordoni on April 28, 2007, 04:15:22 PM: This is a lovely weight, a rather chalky swirl like a coiled snake, with a deeply impressed mark - I have filled it with talcum powder as it didn't show well in the original photo.

Does anyone recognise this mark?

It came with another that is etched Trout Studio, that I think is USA - does anyone have any info on them? I found a mention on a gallery site, but nothing more.

Pink swirl:
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-6710
pink swirl base
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-6709

Trout Studios weight
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-6712
Trout Studios base
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-6711

Thanks!
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: Della on April 28, 2007, 08:09:25 PM: Hi Lynne,

I found this little bit of info on Trout Studio: http://www.stauntonweb.com/holt.html

:)
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: josordoni on April 28, 2007, 08:11:05 PM: Thanks Della!

Funny thing search engines, you can put something in one day and get one thing, then someone else puts much the same thing and gets something different!
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: Lustrousstone on May 06, 2007, 10:54:02 AM: I too have a paperweight with the same impressed mark - hasn't anybody got any ideas ???
See here (http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/lustrousstone/swirl.jpg)
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: josordoni on May 06, 2007, 11:02:35 AM: Seems not Christine... we shall have to make it up.

What shall we call it? It could be Y for Ysart of course... >:D
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: josordoni on May 06, 2007, 11:04:40 AM: Quote from: Deltab on April 28, 2007, 08:09:25 PM

Hi Lynne,

I found this little bit of info on Trout Studio: http://www.stauntonweb.com/holt.html

:)
Oh I meant to ask... what is the offhand technique this link mentions??

(shrugs and tries to look offhand herself)
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: Leni on May 07, 2007, 07:33:12 AM: IMO Christine's weight looks a bit like a Mdina or Mtarfa ???

Is the impressed mark definitely a deliberate mark, rather than just an indentation that didn't get ground out because it was deeper than the rest of the pontil scar?
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: Lustrousstone on May 07, 2007, 09:58:21 AM: It's most definitely impressed, and like a well squished msmall prunt. My mark is exactly the same as Lynne's, which is why I didn't bother photograhing it ;D I did vaguely wonder if it was supposed to be a glassblower.
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: josordoni on May 07, 2007, 11:31:34 AM: Quote from: Leni on May 07, 2007, 07:33:12 AM
IMO Christine's weight looks a bit like a Mdina or Mtarfa ???

Is the impressed mark definitely a deliberate mark, rather than just an indentation that didn't get ground out because it was deeper than the rest of the pontil scar?

Hi Leni, no doubt it is deliberate, the edges are smooth, and it is a good 1 cm deep. I talc'd mine because the patterning visible through the clear glass means it is impossible to see the mark on a photo.
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: Leni on May 07, 2007, 11:51:58 AM: Quote from: Lustrousstone on May 07, 2007, 09:58:21 AM
I did vaguely wonder if it was supposed to be a glassblower.
Oh, what is the company that uses the glassblower on its label? ??? :-\ (Memory problems due to age - see cafe thread! :-[ )
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: josordoni on May 07, 2007, 11:57:02 AM: aaaaggggghhhhhhhh

I can't remember either.......

(calls loudly for help from the younger members.....)
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: Frank on May 07, 2007, 12:17:01 PM: Quote from: josordoni on May 07, 2007, 11:31:34 AM
and it is a good 1 cm deep.

Centimetre :o or millimetre?
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: josordoni on May 07, 2007, 12:20:31 PM: Well, to be honest Frank... the paperweight is downstairs, and I am upstairs, and I am guessing ::)

Like you (aka I) do....

But it is quite deep, much more than 1mm... I'll go and wash out the talc and measure it and report back.
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: Frank on May 07, 2007, 12:22:21 PM: Quote from: Leni on May 07, 2007, 11:51:58 AM
Oh, what is the company that uses the glassblower on its label? ???

Borletto
Thomas Webb
Eibenstein
Putzler
Corning
Funcke & Becker
Rohrbach
Viking
McBeth Evans
Witter
Riedel
Verreries Lorraines
Sopfranverre
Sendlinger
... probably a few more.
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: josordoni on May 07, 2007, 12:23:18 PM: Oh , quite rare then... 8)
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: Leni on May 07, 2007, 12:52:26 PM: Ahem. Excuse me >:D .... "Oh, what is the paperweight making company that uses the glassblower on its label? ??? " :P ;)
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: Leni on May 07, 2007, 01:51:49 PM: I think I may be thinkiing of Mtarfa, but I don't know if they ever used an impressed mark rather than a label ???
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: josordoni on June 17, 2007, 03:46:34 PM: Quote from: Lustrousstone on May 06, 2007, 10:54:02 AM
I too have a paperweight with the same impressed mark - hasn't anybody got any ideas ???
See here (http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/lustrousstone/swirl.jpg)
got it got it got it....

It's an Uredale glassblower.....

I went to the website as my other little weight was id'd as an uredale, and what is there in the top corner???

Our glassblower chappie!

Hurray!!
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: Lustrousstone on June 17, 2007, 03:59:51 PM: Brilliant, I found one the same shape as mine and as it was almost certainly bought by the ex's Mother who used to live in Yorkshire that makes sense :hug:
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: josordoni on June 17, 2007, 04:19:07 PM: I tell you Christine, I knew I had seen it somewhere... but could I think where??

I am so pleased that this little weight can come off the "maybe one day I'll know who the heck you are" shelf.

8)
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: Wuff on June 17, 2007, 08:45:11 PM: Just to make sure I didn't get confused:
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-6709 (http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-6709)
is Uredale - correct ?
Title: Re: pink swirl with deeply impressed mark - any ideas?
Post by: josordoni on June 17, 2007, 10:18:12 PM: Hi Wuff, yes, that's what I reckon. Here is their website on the paperweights page (http://www.uredale.co.uk/website/paperweights/Paperweights.htm): I am not sure if this is a shell or a swirl, but I reckon it must be one of the two.

And the glassblower that is the impressed mark is up the top!