Topic: Signed Pulled Feather Weight with Single Millefiori Cane

[Catisfaction]

I folks, sorry I haven't popped in to visit for a while, life has been getting in the way of my chatting time  :cry: but I'm getting back into the swing of things so hopefully I'll be able to pop in from time to time again and at least look see if there's anything I can help with.

Meantime.... this one has been driving me nuts for about 3 months now give or take, It's signed... should be easy right? Nuuuuuuuuu lol I've googled my heart out on many occasions using *'s and ?'s to try and come up with a name to match the siggie, I've searched for pulled feather millefiori cane paperweights and I think the only ones I've come up with are Orient and Flume. I've even made my boyfriend try and figure it out for me! lol but to no avail.

So.... can anyone here give me a helping hand?

[Max]

Is that Schneider? It's hard to see exactly what that signature is.  We did had a verrrry long discussion about Schneider once, referring to paperweights.

[josordoni]

That says Schneider - there have been a few discussions about Schneider paperweights here in the past.

[josordoni]

oho Max and me obviously get up at the same time!

this is the longest topic I can find on Schneider signed weights:

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,5502.0.html

[Catisfaction]

Thankyou all!! I had contemplated it starting with an S and dismissed it so many times.

Wow, I read that thread and there's so much info there yet so little  I can't tell who's supposed to have done what and who didn't.

Well off to try and research some more. At least I have a name now! Thanks again.

[Frank]

Yes you do but almost certainly a fake signature. Read through the other link and there is an example of the genuine 'Son of Schneider bros.) signature, yours is again a copy of the earlier Schneider signature and badly done by the looks of it 

Yours is acid etched and that requires some sophistication! Despite their ignorance of the type of weight he produced.

direct link to sig post http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,5502.msg54958.html#msg54958

[Catisfaction]

Thanks Frank that clarifies a little, I was having trouble figuring out if this was supposed to be real or fake.

What are the chances it's a Murano piece with a fake siggie?

[glasstrufflehunter]

Fake or not, that centre cane is very nice. A very nice quality piece.

[Catisfaction]

Yup yup, that's why it was driving me nuts not being able to figure out the siggie lol I was thinking a producer of such a gorgeous piece would be fairly easy to track down.

I guess for now it goes into the realms of the unknowns until I have more time to pick up the research thread again *sigh*

[Max]

Hey Cat    The 'unknowns' are the ones you should enjoy!  Well, for me anyway, having a piece of glass that is unknown is exciting!  It's the thrill of the chase, and that makes it just so much more interesting.   

Much better to have a piece of glass that gets people scratching their beards (well, the men anyway  ) than something that is 10 a penny.