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Isle Of Wight Glass, Signed and Unusual Label

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BJB:
Sue,

the paperweight is really yellow and white, and quite a definite yellow, not a wishy washy colour with a pattern of bubbles around the edge, so may it be a trial piece? It is very different from the other pieces I have seen and it wasn't until I picked it up and saw the label I realised what it was :oops:

Barbara

chopin-liszt:
:D:D:D
According to Elizabeth Harris, her husband was always experimenting, he lost interest in a piece as soon as it was made and just wanted to get on with the next bit, to see what he could do with it! This was one of the reasons so few bits are signed.
The motto of IoWSG is "Our best work will be done tomorrow".
I believe that on these grounds, just about all early Mdina and IoWSG can be considered "trial" and "experimental"!! No two of my Seaward pieces are remotely the same, different effects come out in each (ok, ok,  :oops::oops::oops: I've only got a very small number of them)

BJB:
Hi Sue,

Thanks for that information, it makes them all that more special.

BTW that's my motto to about the housework :lol: also never do today what you can do next week :wink:

Barbara

David555:
Hi

That would scan - I have all these pedestal weights down as 'seaward' (book references - not just J Miller 2004 pp273 but others ref in purple and greys) but I can see that the yellow is not as Anne says anything like a seascape, scrap the books  

Yellow Aurene? I don't know - here we have a basic round weight with a pedestal, Kev has one and the book shows a blue one, Kev's has the pontil and the 'Hand Made...' so I was wrong about that (must be a real small label compared to my vase ones which are long) -

Maybe, they had 'Blue Aurene' and a 'White' but I don't know with these other colours , later they had pink and yellow and Turquoise 'Azurene' -Aurene like Azurene was a range in itself (kind of ... colour wise), like with 'Seaward' the yellow weight may have had an evocative name

I think this was a basic IOW paperweight shape and they did lots of variations - anyone got a catalogue, I see these weights from time to time in different colour ways, I am sure they kept it going for a while?

Isn't it interesting that Barbara's is signed by Harris (top money Barbara and well done!) and Kev's has the pontil - he used to sign early on before the pontil was formed, so I'd say Kev's is a little bit later - I am sure he will shoot me down with another bit of research LOL

So Kev & Sue, I stand corrected - all in the name of research LOL  :shock:  :shock:

I know a little about the Lucas connection and Alum Bay

At the moment people are still investigating early IOW styles, though Alum Bay posts (see website) it is the earlier of the two factories

Any more info on Chris Lucas - here are two vases - see how similar they are to Alum Bay pieces - he definitely set up on his own with his own label for a while

http://publish.hometown.aol.co.uk/blackcatgla/images/iow%20copy.jpg

http://publish.hometown.aol.co.uk/blackcatgla/images/im001588%20copy.jpg

And an IOW Tortoiseshell I love



Adam D555 :twisted: :twisted:

BJB:
Hi Adam,

Thats the exact same label on the base of my perfume bottle. Its been stuck in the back of the cupboard for ages as "I must find out more about it sometime....." piece :D

Barbara

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