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Sklounion:
Lamp-work items also came from Czechoslovakia, particularly from the Zelezny Brod Glassworks, Jaroslav Brychta and Jan Cerny being two of the high-profile designers, and lamp-working was taught at the Industrial school there.

Allegedly, the "dachshund peeing on a lamp-post" figure, was a 3-dimensional irreverance toward T.G. Masaryk, first president of the Czechoslovakian Republic, and well-known dachshund owner.

Marcus

BJB:
Hi All,

here is my rabbit,

http://tinypic.com/2d98gl <--- Mod: Link dead

and also some more, I have no idea who made the grasshoppers, but the man I think is Czech and the dragon was bought as that was the year I was born in!

http://tinypic.com/2d98pv <--- Mod: Link dead

Barbara

Anne:
My only lampwork pieces are two sets of earrings made by a man in Brighton (I don't know his name. I do now: Bill Axel) who used to have a shop in (what my late ex-mother-in-law used to call) the top of the town. One is a pair of dark purple (almost black) cats which swing from one paw and which were a regular line for him. The other is a pair of snowmen which the said ex-MIL asked him to make specially for me, and he did. Both pairs attract considerable attention whenever I wear them! Not old, but date from c.1990-ish.

Oh, and I have a tiny lavender elephant my mother brought back from Italy in the 1980's... there was a mother elephant and three young but they were so tiny and suffered the ravages of time and moving house, etc. I think the mother is still intact but the babies lost ears and legs over the years. :( She watched them be made and then bought them for me.

Frank:

--- Quote from: chopin-liszt ---At an antiquey fair in Perth, a couple of years ago, I met David Smith, who had spent 23 years as head lampworker at Perthshire Paperweights, but following their closure, was trying to make ends meet, having opened his own workshop in Perth, making lovely little glass birds and animals, very detailed. I don't know what he's doing now
--- End quote ---

Probably DUNCAN Smith http://www.scotlandsglass.com/People/Duncsmith.htm <--- Mod: Link dead

josordoni:
I've got loads gathering dust on my mantlepiece - they go for nothing, so I tend to keep them and give them to the children from time to time.

None of them have three colour eyes though :-(

On the subject, how can you tell Murano ones from Eastern European ones does anyone know?  Is there a relatively easy way or is it just another area where you just sort of KNOW after handling loads of them?

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