Topic: Mystery PK Mark?

[Ron]

I bought the Padgett book (finally) and can confirm the PK mark is neither Philup Kiluk nor Pairpoint.

[uncommonglass]

This 4 inch vase has an unusual (to me) mark on the base.  If anyone has any information on this mark, I'd sure love to hear from you.  It looks like a combination of T P L K, with what looks like a deliberate flourish to the left of the P and the lower leg of the K is made like a number 2.  I know it looks like it's penciled on, but it is permanent.  It's been suggested that the PK part of it is confused with a Durand mark?

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/normal_g123_009%7E0.jpg
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/normal_g123_010%7E0.jpg

[uncommonglass]

Frank - Geez, I love a good mystery!  Thanks so much for the link to the discussion on this mark.  Great reading!

I noticed on each of the marks I looked at (some links were no longer working, darn it), were slightly different.  The PK remains basically the same, but there are differences in each.  Particularly the black vase with the straight line beginning at the end of the P and ended at the lower leg of the K.  The backwards F is clear to see too.  Whereas on mine, it look much less like an F and more like a T. (Reminds me of the different Hummel bee marks that point to the period they were made.)  There's clues to the maker in the slight differences of the mark, I'll bet.

Maybe I should throw my vase in that other post so others can find my mark too?
Relieved my instincts weren't wrong - it's not a Pairpoint reproduction- whew!

[Lustrousstone]

The subtle differences in the marks are moe likely down to different painters, not manufacturers

[uncommonglass]

Oh, certainly.  I agree.  I didn't mean it to sound like I suspected different makers

[Ron]

Here's part of a reply I got from a customer several months ago:

The "PK" items are actually "FPK", with the "F" reversed at the beginning.
They are Bohemian, and the most common ones like those I got from you are the
largest group by far. There are also other items that go up to (quality-wise)
what people would put the generic "Moser" on. The glass people, like many
industries, are very intertangled by everything from "outsourcing" when they needed
more items than they could produce, to of course all sorts of intermarriage.
It seems that perhaps Mulhause or Harrach had the most to do with the FPK
items, but I am not sure yet. There is a small company that marked some of its
items Tischer, and some of their work resembles the more common FPK things.

[johnphilip]

Just had a quick look on glass gallery for first time,the vase with a conjoined P K on the base i have several with same signature someone a few years back told me it was Palme Konig.Mine are all opaline and some painted or enamelled and mostly in pairs.If this is in wrong place please shift it for me. Thanks.

[Tigerchips]

Here's another two, wow! 
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220207899926

[Frank]

Another vote for Bohemia.

[Lustrousstone]

Very nice those ones. I saw and handled a coffee coloured PK and would go for Bohemia on the basis of the other pieces I've got