Topic: Modern Smoke vase with Amethyst trails, signed to base

[Tigerchips]

Shooting in the dark again, a long time ago, I had a vase with blue stripes and i'm fairly sure it was trailed like this. I think it was Selkirk or some other Scottish company.

Your vase is marked 77.........Selkirk 1977-2006! Hmmmm? 

Here's a feathered one by Selkirk but very much different...
http://www.great-glass.co.uk/shops/shop3-1.htm

[Anne]

Looking at TC's vase I've not seen this type of decoration by Adrian Sankey, at least not that I can recall. Adrian has now stopped making studio glass and has closed the Ambleside gallery/studio where folks could go and watch glass being made He is now working from another site which does not permit visitors, and is focusing on lighting only. The one good thing about this is that he has kept the catalogues of his earlier studio glass on the website, and they can be found in the Archive section: http://www.glassmakers.co.uk/news/

[Lustrousstone]

His stuff is usually signed AND readable I think - well the piece on our fleamarket is

[Anne]

No, not all of it Christine, I recall seeing very little signed in the shop there (used to be a regular haunt of mine) and my small candlesticks aren't signed, they just had a paper label on the base.

[aa]

A number of factors can cause the trails to be raised, and it may or not have been intentional. The timing of the trailing, how much the trails are re-heated and melted in, at which stage in the process they are applied and the colour used for the trail, as well as the relative temperature of the bubble to the trail itself at the point of application can all have a bearing. So it is probably not going to be possible to ascertain the exact reason.

[Tigerchips]

Looking at TC's vase I've not seen this type of decoration by Adrian Sankey, at least not that I can recall. Adrian has now stopped making studio glass and has closed the Ambleside gallery/studio where folks could go and watch glass being made He is now working from another site which does not permit visitors, and is focusing on lighting only. The one good thing about this is that he has kept the catalogues of his earlier studio glass on the website, and they can be found in the Archive section: http://www.glassmakers.co.uk/news/

Checking with that site, I have a Sankey vase that isn't on there.

I wondered where I had seen my vase, thanks... 
http://www.glassmakers.co.uk/archive/displayproduct.cfm?ProductID=43

[Anne]

TC I think it's the last stuff that's shown, not the earlier stuff. I remember a lot more being on sale than is in the catalogues. It was a super place to visit!