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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: antiquerose123 on August 19, 2011, 08:06:02 AM
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:hi:
Here is the second Mushroom PW that I bought from the UK lady here selling some of her stuff she had brought with her a few years ago. I thought is was Black, but when held up to the light, it is Purple-ish since I guess there is No such thing as Black Glass. See well made, and I have no idea of the maker or the year. Not sure what the mark is on the bottom (might it be the fire mark ??) but I forget who that was (Some *student* I am.... :24: :spls: ).
So if anyone can help me, I would be gratefully Thankful.
I have no clue if that is a fire mark, or a letter on the bottom.... :help:
:kissy:
These are my 1st Mushroom Paperweights. She must have liked Mushrooms :sm:
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Rose if youo rotate the base photo 180 degrees that central stamp looks very like a Kiwi. I personally have never seen a base mark like that but I will see what I can find out with a couple of contacts. Have I your permission to pass on the photo?
Ross
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Rose if youo rotate the base photo 180 degrees that central stamp looks very like a Kiwi. I personally have never seen a base mark like that but I will see what I can find out with a couple of contacts. Have I your permission to pass on the photo?
Ross
Hi there Ross:
Sure you have my permission to pass on the photo. That is what we're all here for. I had deleted the rest of my Photos after I posted these -- but I may try taking some more closer, and rotated 180 degrees :usd: ..... LOL
Your saying it *looks* like a Kiwi Bird ---- Not a Kiwi Fruit (right?? ) :24: ;D
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I can see what Ross means Rose ( Kiwi, NOT kiwifruit!!) .....I was looking through some NZ glassworks pieces on Google, but I think Ross has a greater chance, given where he lives.
Rosie.
Rose Ross Rosie....too many of us around!!
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Aye! :sc: But I'm the one who wears the trews. :24:
Ross
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Whoops, still had a another pic here on the computer. :thup: Guess I did keep an extra pic just in case, but it was late here when I posted, so I forgot what I had kept....
You mean *flip* it around this way? :nk:
I can see what you mean now, but I would have never *seen* a bird before you had mentioned it. So this way is the right Flip?
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Not quite that is only 90 degrees.
I have also included a picture from Google images of a "Kiwi Bird" for comparison.
[Mod: Copyright Pic removed as per Board Guidelines & replaced with URL to image page.]
Ross
Link to image of Kiwi bird. (http://www.associatedcontent.com/image/1150248/index.html?cat=58)
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Well Rose I have put out feelers and hope to get some news for you. :sun: I have asked Angela Bowey - as she lives in NZ half her time and has a lovely pwt collection - including some cracking NZ pieces. I have also been in touch with the President of the New Zealand Society of Artists in Glass who is putting the question in the form of a quiz in the magazine soon to comer out. Hopefully someone will come up with a response.
Ross :sc:
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Well Rose I have put out feelers and hope to get some news for you. :sun: I have asked Angela Bowey - as she lives in NZ half her time and has a lovely pwt collection - including some cracking NZ pieces. I have also been in touch with the President of the New Zealand Society of Artists in Glass who is putting the question in the form of a quiz in the magazine soon to comer out. Hopefully someone will come up with a response.
Ross :sc:
Wow Ross (http://serve.mysmiley.net/happy/happy0158.gif) -- You did a lot of work there, and Angela Bowey is the provider of this Website.
Thanks for doing all of that -- keep us informed. I would have *never* seen a Kiwi Bird (http://serve.mysmiley.net/animals/animal0051.gif) in that imprint....even IF I had looked at it a Zillion Times.
Thanks!! :kissy:
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Well Rose I have put out feelers and hope to get some news for you. :sun: I have asked Angela Bowey - as she lives in NZ half her time and has a lovely pwt collection - including some cracking NZ pieces. I have also been in touch with the President of the New Zealand Society of Artists in Glass who is putting the question in the form of a quiz in the magazine soon to comer out. Hopefully someone will come up with a response.
Ross :sc:
Just a Polite Bump.......
To stir the waters again on this Mushroom with its mark.
thanks :kissy:
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Sorry Rose I have not followed up this pwt. Events with my wife's Ovarian Cancer have overtaken me and I don't know when I might be able to find out something. It really is a fascinating mark so I will try to put it on the extended to do list.
Ross
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Sorry Rose I have not followed up this pwt. Events with my wife's Ovarian Cancer have overtaken me and I don't know when I might be able to find out something. It really is a fascinating mark so I will try to put it on the extended to do list.
Ross
@ Ross (please see the Cafe for Best wishes, and hugs during this time)
No problem -- Your wife comes first. Do not worry about my PW when you have your own concerns going on. One's health is more important than my PW. Please see my HUGS in the Cafe
:kissy:
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I haven't managed to locate an image of the weight or the kiwi mark - the moderator has removed it because of copyright, and the link provided does not work. Giovanni produced a very distinctive 'murrini' kiwi in the 1990s, but I suspect since this is a mushroom paperweight that it is not one of theirs. If I can be sent an image or provide with a link I'll be pleased to try to help
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Stuart you are on page 2 of the correct link now. Photos on page 1.
Ross
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Thanks for that, got there in the end. I have seen that mark on one or two pieces listed for sale on TradeMe (the New Zealand e-Bay), but I have never been able to track down their origin. I have a sneaking suspicion it might be Chinese (they do a great line they call 'The New Zealand Collection', but that's just a hunch. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
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Thanks for the Reply gaspy1 and ahremck!!
I was thinking here (oh no....LOL) Maybe it is Not a Kiwi bird......Maybe it is a Stylized Polar Bear Logo (sitting on butt) or something like that. Just throwing it out there.....??
I did get all the other Glass Mushroom posted (and this one) by me -- from a lady that was from over-the-pond and had moved here. So anything is possible.
Thanks :-*
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Rose if youo rotate the base photo 180 degrees that central stamp looks very like a Kiwi. I personally have never seen a base mark like that but I will see what I can find out with a couple of contacts. Have I your permission to pass on the photo?
Ross
?? Did you ever find out anything ?? Could the mark BE A KIWI, or could be from ???????? Hokitika Glass Studio of New Zealand ??????? As a guess ?????
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I don't have an ID for you, but I don't see a kiwi - it's an impressed Q.