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Glass Animals (lampwork)
Frank:
Hi Barbara,
Are any of your daughters collection labelled? The main indicator of Pirelli seems to be that the eyes are three colours with white/pupil/iris. But not all :x Is your rabbit like the black and white one or the one of the possibly Pirelli page, I just got another that is closer to the Pirelli one but I do not think it is. Picture in 5 minutes.
Adam, they seem to have been made commercially in substantial quantities for gift trade etc. would you know if your colleagues were selling via a company or just as gifts. The glassworkers at Pirelli were recorded as Scientific glassmakers. Published material concentrates on moulded or American production of glass animals.
Ray, all I can find with your suggestion is glass jewellery.
The joys and frustrations of virgin territory!
Frank:
Some more. http://tinypic.com/2d0un9 <---- Mod: Link dead
I doubt if any are Pirelli.
Rabbit is not exactly like the Pirelli one shown here
http://www.ysartglass.com/Pirelli/Images/Rabbit02bw.jpg The other one from website: http://www.ysartglass.com/Pirelli/Images/Rabbit03.jpg
Ivo:
The town of Lauscha, near Dresden, is the largest producer of lampworked animals and figurines.
http://www.glaszentrum-lauscha.de/de/home.php
BJB:
Hi Frank,
It is like the black and white photo. Mine has a blue jacket and trousers, a red bowtie and buttons and is holding a yellow walking stick. The funniest thing is his flat legs !Quite the dandy
The only other one which Vicky has that is similar to the Pirelli glass animals you have on the site is the rabbit holding a carrot.
Once the batteries have recharged I'll photo them.
Barbara
Adam:
Frank,
Sorry, I don't know to what extent "home-made" animals were sold commercially, but I would be surprised if there weren't a lot. Your posting reminded me - their proper job title was, I think, Scientific Glassblowers. The top men shared highest-earners place in the factory with the top big-shop blowers (i.e. working at furnace type blowing, making up to 200 litreflasks).
I have a vague recollection that a couple of the lampworkers (let's stick to the common term) had left to set up their own business. I don't know how much of that was animals etc and how much jobbing scientific work for small labs. It must have been lucrative to have quit their original, highly paid jobs.
For the record, all of this would have been in the Sunderland area.
Adam D.
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