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My Glass Artists List
Lustrousstone:
Mine all made/make paperweights (and other stuff). Are paperweights defined as round(ish) or can they have shapes - say apples or animals?
Lustrousstone:
Perhaps when we're bored with creating a list, we could start on a 10-20 word description of each person's/studio's type of output - make it into a real database
Frank:
Dates would help too. Ranges if possible but start with years known. Main problem is you really need a moderator to manage such a list in the first post as straggling through a thread can be difficult.
KevinH:
Well done for the time and effort in creating such a list.
--- Quote ---Personally, I'm interested in paperweights, and my use of the list is to try finding leads in identifying signed/marked weights.
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I would recommend Andy Dohan's Dictionary of Paperweight Signature Canes (latest version on CD - as covered in a message in the Market Place ) Andy's CD covers over 360 names, companies etc., has 1650 colour images and links the actual signatures with over 360 makers. That goes a long way to sorting out the list of possibles for almost all known paperweight makers - and in the CD version, lots of bead makers are listed, too, so that helps to separate the different categories.
Your list has 447 entries which shows that you have included over 80 names that are not in Andy's CD book and may, therefore be unconnected with paperweights / marbles. There are also names in Andy's CD book that are not in your list, including the famous people from the start of paperweight making in Murano as well as some names from more modern times in Murano.
Frank mentioned some of the factors that might be needed to help maintain and use such a list. I would suggest that country would be useful, too. Are you including names on labels in the same way as signatures? As just one example, "Scotia of Scotland" is mentioned, but that was (I think) just a trading name used by William Manson at one time. So perhaps there should be some form of link between "Manson" and "Scotia" within the list, otherwise, people new to paperweights might think that they are separate makers. That sort of linking would apply to many of the names but it would also start to make the full list quite complex, hence, as Frank says, a need for some type of moderating would be required.
aa:
Here is a list of mainly British glass artists working in the UK at some time over the last 30 years, most of whom it has been my pleasure and privilege to know at some point in my career.
It is not extensive, as I have compiled it purely from memory, and more keep springing to mind.
AMSEL GALIA
ANNENBERG RAY
ANTONIO JENNY
ATRILL PHIL
BAMFORTH VIC
BARCROFT PAUL
BIRKS CATHERINE
BLANTHORN BRIAN
BLANTHORN JENNY
BRUCE JANE
BURKE ED
BURKE MARGARET
CANT SABRINA
CARCASS JAMES
CHARLES JANE
CLARKE NORMAN STUART
CLARKE DILLON
CLEGG TESSA
COLEMAN KATHARINE
COMINS CHRIS
CROOKS BOB'
CROPPER GEOFF
CULLEN BARRY
DADEN FRED
DICKINSON ANNA
DITCHFIELD JOHN
DREISER PETER
DUTT SURESH
ELLIOT GEORGE
FAWKES SALLY
FLADGATE DEBORAH
FLAVELL RAY
FRAME IAN
GARFOOT STUART
HANAUER PETER
HARRIS MICHAEL
HARRIS JONATHAN
HARRIS TIM
HARRIS ELISABETH
HAWES GRAHAM
HAY ANDREW
HAY LOUISE
HEARN STUART
HENSHAW CLAIRE
HERMAN SAM
HEWLETT PETER
HOLFORD KATIE
HOUGH CATHERINE
JACKSON DAVID
JACKSON RICHARD
JACQUARD MAX
KAPLAN DAVID
KEELAN SUE
KENNY JOANNE
KINNAIRD ALISON
LAMB MAX
LANGLEY SIDDY
LAYTON PETER
LEWIS JOHN
LINSTEAD JULIA
MARKS BRUCE
MEAKER CHARLIE
MEECH ANNETTE
MOORE SIMON
MUSGROVE PAUL
MUSGROVE ANDREW
NEWELL STEVEN
NEWHAM ANABEL
NICOLSON AMANDA
ORSLER NICK
PARK SUNG WON
PEARCE AMANDA
PENN SMITH SALLY
PENNELL RONALD
POTTER ANDREW
PROCTOR STEPHEN
RAINBOW CLAIRE
RAMSAY VICTOR
REEKIE DAVID
REEVES LIAM
ROMANELLI BRUNO
ROSENBAUM MARK
ROWE LAYNE
RUTH DAVID
SANDERS ANDREW
SANDSTROM ANNICA
SHAW TIM
SMIT BIBI
SMITH JOHN
SOLVEN PAULINE
STERN ANTHONY
STERN PATRICK
SUTCLIFFE MALCOLM
SWEET SAM
TAYLOR DAVID
TAYLOR WENDY
THORNTON CHRIS
TINSLEY DELLA
TOOKEY FLEUR
TURBERFIELD PETE
TWISS CHRISTINE
TYSOE PETER
VON DREHLE CARIN
URQUHART ANNE
WALKER WILLIAM
WALLACE DAVID
WASSELL ANTHONY
WERNER ALEKSANDER
WILKINSON RONNIE
WILLIAMS CHRISTOPER
WOFFENDEN EMMA
WOODS PAUL
WOODS ANNE
WOOLHOUSE SUE
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