Topic: Split: Legras Cameo Sargel

[david31162]

Mike, you mentioned your selling site so I went for a visit...wow, lovely pieces. You have helped answer my post from long ago (2005). Yor Legras cameo...is it signed Sargel like mine? If not perhaps mine is a preliminary design for the  pattern. http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,2146.msg15061.html#msg15061
David

[Mike M]

Hi

when I first saw it - I expected it to be signed Sargel

but my one is actually signed Legras SD (SD for St Denis)

-I rather like them - bought a strawberry one in the last few days

cheers

Mike

[david31162]

I really liked mine too. ..but a London dealer(some years ago) led me to believe that mine was repro as the inside is in a brown, recycled beer bottle type colour.
David

[Mike M]

Yours is just fine

The technique may, I think, be unique to Legras

combining both cameo and then iridisation

M

[david31162]

I really like the final finish. The leaves remind me of an oil painting sketch with scratched in lines.
Does yours have the odd looking brown inner layer?
Could it be that Sargel was a trial range or second quality signature ? Like CIIG on Caithness glass.

David

[Mike M]

Hi

Its hard to see the inside on mine as the necks are so slim -one looks all white/cream the other has a lot of browns.

There is nothing particularly unusual about Sargel as a signature (Legras used quite a few different signatures). -Its well known Legras did not seem to use one particular signature for a particular design/pattern.

I've even seen some of this type that I'm sure are Legras but with undocumented signatures

Cheers

Mike

[malwodyn]

Sargel is of course LeGras backwards.....