Topic: Is there a way to date Murano Stickers? I looked on stickers 101

[loveglass]

I have a paperweight with the same sticker as the sticker on page 11 second row second one in on the Murano 101 labels

[TxSilver]

well, since no one has answered, I thought I would offer a word. The label is considered to be a generic mid-20th Century label. I have not seen any dates for it. Many of the labels were used for a couple of decades, so without documentation, it is difficult to say anything more exact. I wish that we had a year range for all of the labels. It would provide a lot of good information.

[langhaugh]

Just to add a note to Anita's comment. For the well known companies, i.e. the ones who produced glass worth a great deal and/or glass which is highly valued aesthetically, you'll find there are a few sources which give you an idea when a particular label for a company was made. Heiremanns in Themes and Variations, for example, gives a history of the labels for AVeM, Barbini, Barovier & Toso, Cappelin, Cenedese,  Salviati, Seguso VA, Fratelli Toso, and Venini. I don't think anyone has done the research for the thousands of other labels that existed for a couple of reasons: first, it would be really difficult, as companies come and go without keeping records in the way that Venini does, for example; and, second, it doesn't really make difference when some pieces were made. I've got the label you mention on a few pieces, one piece pretty much basic tourist glass (an orange ewer), and another on a quite nice little fenicio jug. I know the latter piece is way better than the first piece, yet they both have the same label. That is, the label doesn't tell me much, I have to look at the piece of glass itself for that. I guess the basic question is whether you think your paperweight is  well made.

Yet the labels that are in Heiremanns and elsewhere are useful in that they give you a ballpark figure for when a particular style of label was in vogue.

David

[langhaugh]

I was moving my glass around this weekend, and I looked for the label loveglass asked about (it's the Vetreria Artistico Venezia on a red diagonal stripe on a rectangular gold foil label). I had more examples than I remembered. I was struck by the variety of styles and quality. One piece looked very much like it was made by Campanella and another piece owed a lot to Barovier and Toso.  Others pieces were much less well made. I started wondering if this label might have been used by a number of companies for their more generic glass, sort of a forerunner to the promovetro label. Anyone have any ideas on this?

David

[TxSilver]

I had a few small glass vases and paperweights that had the VAV label. They looked like they could have been done by Fratelli Toso and Barbini. I wondered if the label was put on by an importer that ordered things from various companies or an exporter of goods to the US. I know that the Italians know, but they're not talking! 

Wouldn't a book on Italian labels be nice?