Topic: Can anyone help me with this piece?

[Lana]

I dug this out of a garden at a garage sale - cost $10.    Then when I got it home and washed the "ends" I realised the damage was somewhat more than I initially thought.   I took it to a glass cutter to remove some of the damage - he said it was too hard and sent me on to someone with a water-powered cutter.  $80 later  it looks like this.  It's lost about 1.5 inches from the frosted top section which was initially (apparently) cut downwards with a diamond saw and several of these bits had broken.  It still is a thing of beauty and the thought if it sitting in a garden bed as a rest for a hose was just horrible, so I am happy to have saved it.  I can't get a good pic of the signature, try as I might, this was the best I could do.

I'm pretty sure it's a candle holder, origin unknown.  About 50 cm across the top.  Any info would be appreciated.

[jakgene]

Sorry but the photos are too small to see it.  You can make them
Up to 125kb. Yours are only around 6kb. Can you load some better quality ones please?
Thanks.

[chopin-liszt]

Hi and welcome. 
How lovely to hear of somebody falling for and rescuing a bit of art glass from the obscurity of a garden bed!

You'll find loads of techie tips of posting and resizing images here. You'll just have to find the right set of instructions for the systems/programmes you use.
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/board,22.0.html

A good tip for photographing signatures on glass is to rub a little talcum powder over the mark and brush the excess off with your thumb. The talc will sit in the engraving and show it up.

[Lana]

Thanks everyone  .  It took me a moment to work out the downsizing of the photos, but hopefully they are not quite so small now.  I hadn't realised they were so tiny, they looked fine on my computer.

No talcum powder on hand to enhance the signature, but if it can't be recognised I'll go and buy some!

I'm somewhat of a hoarder of glass, quite a bit of it I can't identify, nothing as spectacular as this though.

[chopin-liszt]

Cornflour? It's slightly finer than wheatflour, but wheatflour would still probably do the job. It can just be slightly messy if it gets wet, but it's still easy enough to clean off afterwards. 

[Lana]

Thanks Sue,  have used the cornflour and hope this helps. Lana

[chopin-liszt]

That's great - lovely and clear. But I can't read it. 

[glassobsessed]

I can see why you wanted to save it, is it solid?

John

[Lana]

Thanks yet again.  Ah well,  I will just have to love it regardless of maker.

And John, yes, it IS solid.  It's about 50 cm across and 6 cm deep.  I nearly killed myself getting it out of the dirt. 

I've included a close-up of the centre of it which clearly shows the candle holder portion.  It's an odd size, too big for a taper and a little too small for a regular candle size.

[rocco]

Just guesswork here, but maybe it was meant to be mounted on a metal support? (upside down)

Michael