Topic: Anyone recognise the impressed mark on this uranium swan dish?

[dirk.]

Mmmh, might be a great crested grebe though...  
Anyone recognise this mark?

The dish is made of uranium glass with some blue and red blobs.
It´s ca. 22,5cm / 9" tall

TIA
Dirk (aka dirk.)

[Anik R]

Dirk, no offence intended -- honestly -- but what the heck did you post?  Normally you've got great taste in glass, and a truly enviable collection... suddenly you come up with a mutant bird-bowl thingy. 

 :kissy:

[keith]

 :24: :24:sorry Dirk,Anik it's not that bad,I've got worse! :pb:

[dirk.]

 :24:    :24:
Really no offense taken!
We´re totally d´accord about it, Anik - it´s one of the most ugly things I´ve ever bought.
My intentions were: it was cheap, it´s uranium  (it will be resaleable) and it´s got a mark
and so it offers the opportunity to (l)earn something.
Be assured I´ve not been brain-washed in the meantime...  :sm:

edit: Mmmh @Keith, is that possible? Hope we don´t offend the beast fraction here...  :pb:

[Anik R]

Keith and Dirk, you're both too funny...  and scary...

[keith]

  :thud: :pb:

[Lustrousstone]

I've got a contender in the tasteless birds stakes
http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=498
No idea who made Dirk's though. My place guess would be Murano

[Anik R]

Keith, are you sure that's supposed to be a bird?  It looks more like a weirdo snail that has been partially run over by a lorry... several times... at different speeds.  Gosh, that IS ugly.

Christine, your pigeon isn't all that bad, though I've never been able to understand why some glassmakers put their animals on little pedestals...  :spls:.  That alone makes a piece ugly in my eyes.  Anyway, I think your birdy would make a passable soap dish. 

Dirk, sorry for turning your thread into an ugly bird contest, although I find it highly entertaining...  I do hope someone will help you with the mark.  :kissy:

[dirk.]

It´s a tactic I sometimes use in conversations, when they get stuck.
Tell something really embarassing about yourself and you´ll break the ice and
encourage others to carry on.
Although not intended in the first place this seems to work with ugly finds as
well - fascinating.... 
We could start a competition with our bestiary and create fictional speech
balloons for them?

See - I´m not too passionate about this item... Nonetheless - this mark is quite
distinctive and it should be identifiable.
Christine, thanks for your suggestion! I was thinking along that lines, too, but
I can´t recall any maker from there using impressed marks...
Let´s wait and see...

[Lustrousstone]

Actually I rather like him Dirk (there are far worse out there), but I've never seen that mark either.