Topic: stylised shell thing....any ideas on use or maker please

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.....could be a paperweight of sorts I suppose - it is weighted by the heavy cased base.

very tactile, about 3 inches tall.

can't find anything similar on my usual searches so quite prepared to be told its a T K Maxx special

cheers

Mel

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I'm only making a very vague suggestion that it might be Mtarfa.
I know they've made stranger shapes than the tube-y bendy bottles, I've seen some very odd things indeed, this might be a slightly superior one of their strange shaped things... 

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I also thought Mtarfa but thought I'd wait and see if anyone else thought so too
the marbled pale orange and green is what made me think of them but I wasn't sure if I was seeing the pattern or colours correctly?
The other possible that occurred to me was Jozefina glass Poland.  But I don't know if this kind of quirky paperweight shaped thing is their type of design.
m

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I can't really make out any Mtarfa colourway I know, the pics are a little out of focus when blown-up.
It was first and foremost the shape; and then the colours not being not Mtarfa - which isn't the same thing as saying they *are* Mtarfa... if you see what I mean. 

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ladies thanks for the replies

ah, Mtarfa. I had considered that as well but the base has concentric ribbing rather than a ground and polished base so had dismissed that as an option    I will have to re-open that line of investigation

I know my pics are generally rubbish but in this case I think the colours in the glass are slightly out of focus and merging 

Mel

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The base looks as if it was flattened on a marver.

With something like this - how can we tell which end the maker started at?

My first "impression" of it, was that it is a Dali-esque telephone... I rather fancied it too!

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My first "impression" of it, was that it is a Dali-esque telephone

very funny !    made me laugh anyway

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Colours look as if it was being prepared for a nice blown piece, but it looks as if the maker gathered over it too hot. The glass ran from the neck. As it went wrong, the maker twisted the iron and turned it into a nice "salvage" object. Happens all the time.

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Happy New Year!

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right on.  I've done this many times.

Colours look as if it was being prepared for a nice blown piece, but it looks as if the maker gathered over it too hot. The glass ran from the neck. As it went wrong, the maker twisted the iron and turned it into a nice "salvage" object. Happens all the time.

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Happy New Year!

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Ok, but Mtarfa does/did make strange shaped things quite deliberately.
It's not just the intestiney sort of bottles, I'm seen melting sorts of things that look a little bit like styles.
It was a pair I saw, with labels.  4 upright posts, with glass "draped" over them, they didn't know if they were supposed to be tables or bits of fencing.
They also make some stunningly lovely glass.