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Title: Mdina or just a lookie likie?
Post by: BJB on April 27, 2006, 02:29:52 PM
Have just uncovered this "lovely" item, and have remembered why THIS one was put in the loft :lol:  

To be honest it looks like a stick of rock with the pink and white swirls  (and I don't like rock either :wink: ) but it isn't marked and the base is flat.

Could it be Mdina or a copy of or just a ................

http://i3.tinypic.com/wk4qyf.jpg

http://i3.tinypic.com/wk4rac.jpg

http://i3.tinypic.com/wk4riv.jpg


.........little stick of Blackpool rock :P

Barbara
Title: Mdina or just a lookie likie?
Post by: paradisetrader on April 27, 2006, 02:36:22 PM
Sorry Barb
but this doesn't strike me as having any relationship to Mdina.
Other maltese production seems to be most often marked and non of those would be obvious candidates IMHO

So what is it ?
Sorry I have no immediate suggestions !
Ivo ? Anyone ?
Title: Mdina or just a lookie likie?
Post by: BJB on April 27, 2006, 02:43:46 PM
Hi Peter,

Thats OK, I really am not all that keen on it ( can you tell) and am about to list it and would like to give it the right definition.

Its really heavy though, just had a thought could it be "Chinese" :lol:

Will just put Art Glass Vase, that should cover all the bases.

Barbara
Title: Mdina or just a lookie likie?
Post by: Ivo on April 27, 2006, 03:24:36 PM
I would think Mdina because a/ they're no stranger to pink and b/ the perfume with the hanging stopper (missing) is quite specific - I've never seen it from anyone else.
But then, maybe it s not...
Title: Mdina or just a lookie likie?
Post by: chopin-liszt on April 27, 2006, 03:35:46 PM
:D :D :D

I'm not sure about this one, Babara! You could try asking the archive people at IoWSG.

Pink is indicative of later Mdina, as is white. It is a Mdina shape, I've seen this pattern in tortoiseshell colours. I've not seen a piece like this.
Title: Mdina or just a lookie likie?
Post by: paradisetrader on April 27, 2006, 03:57:42 PM
Oooops
I'm obviously not familiar enough with recent Mdina which seems to be throwing up a number of surprises .....I think I got one in the post today ....the quality of which is abysmal. :(
Title: Mdina or just a lookie likie?
Post by: chopin-liszt on April 27, 2006, 04:20:55 PM
:D:D:D

There are also Mtarfa or Guernsey glass, which may have been responsible. Looking at it longer, I'm starting to have doubts about the exact shape.

 :shock: You'd better show it then, Peter! I don't really know what is meant by recent. Some of the stuff on the website is gorgeous. Olivia Said, Joseph's daughter has been a master glassmaker for a while and has also produced some fantastic work.
Title: Mdina or just a lookie likie?
Post by: BJB on April 27, 2006, 04:53:59 PM
Hi Sue,

I thought that Guernsey glass marked their items with the 3 lions impressed on the base. This is just flat, and unmarked.

It's not my favourite piece of glass, I don't even know why I bought it in the first place, mad moment I suppose. I'm not a "pink lady" to be honest.  I like my orange 1960's lights better :lol:

Barbara
Title: Mdina or just a lookie likie?
Post by: paradisetrader on April 27, 2006, 05:12:09 PM
Sue
I'm not sure what I mean by recent either .....maybe 90s onwards ?

Their current catalogues online
Here http://www.mdinaglass.net/ and here http://www.stockpots.co.uk/extra_sites/mdinaglass/index.html show some very nice stuff.

Mine might be a second or a frigger or end-of-day or not Mdina. I will photo ....honest !
Title: Mdina or just a lookie likie?
Post by: MarkHill on April 28, 2006, 11:07:55 PM
Hi there,
For what it is worth, I don't think that one is Mdina. It certainly has a similar form to some pieces and is thickly rendered, but the pink isn't quite the right colour and it just doesn't 'look' right to me. However, in the course of writing my book, I've come across so many weird pieces that don't look anything like Mdina, but end up having the factory signature or label. If it is, then I'd say it was 80s at the very earliest. Nevertheless, on balance, I'd say no! Sorry to make you keep on hunting.
Good luck,
Mark
Title: Mdina or just a lookie likie?
Post by: BJB on April 29, 2006, 09:23:14 AM
Hi Mark,

Many thanks for your help, its one of those "?" items, which you think they might be something but on reflection or further reading are not ( if you know what I mean)

The trouble is when I first started to become interested in glass in the early 1990's, I bought anything and everything, and believed what ever I was told when buying it too. It was only when I invested in some books that I realised that the mistakes I had made.

As I had bought what I liked at the time it didn't matter,its only now when I want to pass some of them onto new homes that the subject of maker becomes more pressing. I don't want to miss-describe something or use the "generic" Murano etc, even though sometimes it is inavoidable.

Emptying the loft has been a bitter sweet jouney down memory lane, as some items were given by relatives and friends who are no longer here, and reminiscing about days out and holidays and who bought what, and sometimes, why they bought it! But the loft is now tidy, and the most precious memories have been tidied away until next time. Just got to sort the old shed out now :shock:

Barbara
Title: Mdina or just a lookie likie?
Post by: chopin-liszt on April 29, 2006, 03:55:38 PM
:D:D:D
I hope you enjoyed your sojurn down memory lane, Barbara, and that you've kept enough to enable you to make the journey again!
Title: Mdina or just a lookie likie?
Post by: BJB on April 30, 2006, 12:59:16 PM
Hi Sue,

Yes everything of any note has been re-boxed and put back. But this time in each box we have included a written inventory of where, when and sometimes who bought what, who the people are on any photo's etc, so that if the children come to clear it out when we have gone, they will have a record and this may help them decided what they want to keep out of it.

Babara