Topic: has anyone heard of a Glass maker called Dave Hobart? c.early 1970's please

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Looking for some info on this glassmaker please.  I bought a very nice piece of glass signed by him but can't find any info at the mo.
Many thanks
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Images of said vase...I love this vase...it reminds me of a Michael Harris Fish vase slightly.  Dated Nov 74, so possibly been influenced by.
Blown from the top and has a cut and polished rim.  The 'straps' are on both side and go under the base across the middle of the base.
Colouring and inclusions effect are gorgeous.
About 6 1/2" wide (16cm) by 5 1/4" tall (13m)
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It strikes me it's very sophisticated for '74 - I think I'd be looking to america or the antipodes to start with.
I've gone through the index of my "American Studio Glass 1960-1990" but his name isn't there - this doesn't mean it's not in the book - I've already discovered Wayne Filan is written about in the main text, but he's not in the index.

Why do so many great books have lousy indices? :grrr:

I find the vase slightly sinister! It reminds me of trussed up mummies or something a bit insecty (lousy!) under a microscope.

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you are way ahead of me Sue in the collecting stakes ..and thank you for looking - I don't have that book.  The guy I bought it from said America had been suggested, so I was thinking that's a possible and of course, the very word Hobart made me think Australia, Herman studio/student, but I've not managed to unearth anything so far.
Also the signature is really nicely done, I have to say possibly one of the best engraved sigs I've seen (obviously not including M.Harris  )
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lol, I've just seen your descriptor of my beautiful vase  :24:  very well written but not at all true in the flesh...
I'm now looking at it and seeing a headless armless woman with a shawl over her shoulders  :help:
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A (-n evil) thought I had when I saw the signature was that it looks very like "normal" legible writing - and with the detail of the day being included, could it possibly have been marked, in a possessive way by the first person who bought it?

This is not unknown - my Mdina tricorn cobalt charger was clearly  :24: signed "R B Joslin, London, 1971".
These scratchings have been professionally removed.

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done by a dentist with a diamond point drill  
well, I don't know enough about sig engraving (dremel, diamond point or whatever it may be) to know, but I think it's done properly whoever did it.  It's not a scratched on thing, pretty small, neat and placed well sort of thing.
'nother closer pic of sig. Your thoughts?  Am I wrong?
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Maybe it's the open round letters which made me think it's just a bit child-like??
It just doesn't look like an "official pawmark".

(it evoked the same feeling in me as reading a child-like address, finished with; Europe, Planet Earth, The Solar System, The Universe....")

I may well be completely wrong!
It is, however, a very sophisticed piece for '74 - perhaps it's the mismatch between the sophistication of the piece and the unsophisticated appearance of the signature which is messing with my thinking - which is all just gut stuff.

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You could be right.  Another thought I had was I was wondering if it was a degree piece?  hence the detail in the date? p.s. my photo is hugely enlarged which may be what is making it look so 'round'.  I shall do a pic of the base hopefully showing the sig placement.
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That certainly is another possibility  :hiclp: Good thinking - it certainly would be a good reason for the day to be mentioned - an emerging artist who perhaps hasn't finalised his "pawmark design".