Topic: Monart or not ?

[nigel benson]

Excellent Frank 

[chopin-liszt]

I decided to keep the label on my loo cistern.
It reads;

 M passed 007

it is FAR too funny to remove!

[Frank]

 

Mine was crap

[chopin-liszt]

 
Literally or figuratively?

If it had been literal, I suppose you'd have kept it, though.

[Gary]

Hmm, so my pet theory of it being used on bowls (and with your vases, now vases as well) in order to make the pontil less intrusive into the pattern is getting shot, darn it  Of course this assumes the removal of the label by the owner once the item is washed/taken home from the shop, etc. 

Nigel

Below are part of a correspondence between Betty Reid and Paul Hollistor. This materail is from the Monart archives in Perth museum.
Gary

[KevinH]

For those who may not know (and assuming I have got it right), Paul Hollister (Jr.) is well known in paperweight circles for his 1969 book "The Encylcopedia of Glass Paperweights".

But more importantly, he was a leading light (at least, in the USA) in the field of studio glass, having written many articles from the 70s thru 90s. See: http://www.bgc.bard.edu/news/events/-91.html

[millarart]

so nigel was correct then regarding concave pontils , also there are examples of monart with the four marked pontil, I have one somewhere and I know keith has some also , or is this a different thing their on about

[chriscooper]

I never doubted for second that he was right 

[millarart]

I never doubted for second that he was right 

lol

[nigel benson]

My goodness, thanks very much for sharing those letters with us Gary  How very gratifying, my feelings have been chuffed 

Cheers, Nigel