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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: josordoni on November 18, 2006, 11:40:42 PM

Title: help with signature please - ID = London Glassblowing Peter Layton
Post by: josordoni on November 18, 2006, 11:40:42 PM: I can't make out this signature, squint as I may - it is on a small (about 4 ins tall inc stopper) blue green perfume bottle with a wonderful texture to the outside surface - the stripes are slightly raised.

here is the signature:

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-4173

here is the bottle

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-4172

any help gratefully received!
Title: help with signature please
Post by: Frank on November 18, 2006, 11:43:34 PM: Micky 65 :?:
Title: help with signature please
Post by: Anne on November 19, 2006, 12:11:59 AM: Colourwise it looks Mdina-ish I think?
Title: help with signature please
Post by: Pip on November 19, 2006, 12:53:35 AM: Quote from: "Anne"
Colourwise it looks Mdina-ish I think?

Exactly what I was thinking Anne but it doesn't look like Michael Harris' signature which is very neat and readable - where's Sue I wonder? I'm sure she'd know ....
Title: help with signature please
Post by: josordoni on November 19, 2006, 09:00:15 AM: I've got a lot of Mdina around at the moment, and this is quite different. the blue is much more of a true royal blue rather than the rather kingfisher blue Mdina use, and the texture of the surface is different as well. The stopper has a long shaft with a ground matt texture, and a flat bottom end which is quite un-Mdinish.

Here is another picture of the bottle that shows the texture better - its on my website so I can put a bigger picture on than on the Glass Gallery. You can see that the deep blue and green are almost flat straps surface applied.

http://clarkagency.co.uk/blue%20green%20perfume%203.jpg

And here is the length of the stopper

http://clarkagency.co.uk/blue%20green%20stopper.jpg
Title: help with signature please
Post by: Lustrousstone on November 19, 2006, 02:28:37 PM: Mtarfa? I think?
Title: help with signature please
Post by: butchiedog on November 26, 2006, 10:49:17 PM: Hi,
I hope you don't mind I zoomed in close on a copy of your photo and traced the lines as they are in white to see if I could make out what it says. I still can't, but maybe someone else will be able to read it. Nice looking item though. --- Mike

http://i15.tinypic.com/4ftsiee.jpg
Title: help with signature please
Post by: josordoni on November 26, 2006, 11:00:33 PM: Thank you Mike!

Almost looks like Brierley, but I wouldn't expect even their studio pieces to be hand signed? Certainly seems to be dated 1965 doesn't it?
Title: help with signature please
Post by: Leni on November 26, 2006, 11:59:48 PM: I would say the last letters were definitely 'ley' but what the first are I can't make out! Could it be P followed by r u or u r? :? Purley? :shock: (Say no more! :lol: )
Title: help with signature please
Post by: josordoni on November 27, 2006, 09:14:07 AM: Quote from: "Leni"
I would say the last letters were definitely 'ley' but what the first are I can't make out! Could it be P followed by r u or u r? :? Purley? :shock: (Say no more! :lol: )

heheh Do you think that might have been where it was made Leni? :lol:
Title: help with signature please
Post by: chopin-liszt on November 29, 2006, 12:30:03 PM: :?

I've not got a clue!

Not Mdina.

It does look a little like IoWSG Seaward, but the stopper is wrong. It also looks a little like Allister Malcolm's "Ripple" pattern, but to tell which this may be, or not, I'd need to see it "in vitro". Seaward and Ripple are quite different, but from a picture, I'm stumped!

Is there any optical texture in the glass? Allister Malcolm's Ripple has hexagon shapes in the glass.