Topic: list of artists marks and signatures

[CML]

New here and need some guidance Where can I go to find a list of paperweight or glass artists, their marks or signatures.
Needless to say I have a few Sigs I cannot read .

Also is there a place to go that will list ALL paperweight artists and their work....or am I dreaming?

TIA   

[Sach]

The Dictionary of Paperweight Signature Canes by Andrew Dohan illustrates the "marks" of many but not all.  His more recent versions have been digital rather than print.

No one place will list them all.  Nice fantasy.

[Lustrousstone]

Somewhere on this board I believe there is a long list of names only - don't have time to look right now.

[CML]

Sach and Lustrous,

Thanks for your response!  I knew it would be too good to be true. Guess I am going to have to bug you guys on some of my ID's . Maybe the hunt is what makes collecting this beauties so much fun.

Laz

[tropdevin]

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Hi.

I think that a comprehensive list of signatures is a near impossibility. Besides those makers for whom paperweights are a standard product, many thousands of small glass studios around the world make (or have made) the odd paperweight, and have sometimes signed them.  And in my experience having a legible signature seems to be rare amongst glass artists!

Alan

[CML]

Thanks Alan---makes sense . Too Bad though.

[Lustrousstone]

Here it is
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,20413.0.html

[Sach]

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 in my experience having a legible signature seems to be rare amongst glass artists!

Alan

Writing legibly on glass is something less than straightforward.  Using a diamond stylus it tends to want to run in a straight line rather than a smooth curve.  Using a diamond bit in a Dremel it will pull in the direction the bit is spinning.  Add to that the desire to make the signature unobtrusive and you get what you see.  Thus the value of using a "signature" cane.

[tropdevin]

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Hi

'Up to a point, Lord Copper.' 

The signature on the weight below is reasonably legible, and that was made with a Dremel style engraver, by an amateur.

Alan

[Lustrousstone]

and he spelt his name correctly. I think the problem is more that they are signatures and not just names. Jonathan Harris' is extremely legible and neat on his PWs