Topic: Mdina maybe MDG Whale?

[chriscooper]

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Any opinions on this Whale looks very much  Mdina like characteristics  maybe MDG

[glassobsessed]

Reminds me off: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,46607.0.html

The swirly colours and something about the style...

John

[chriscooper]

Without sticking my neck out too much, and there's plenty on here that know much more than I do.
I just know it's 'right' if you understand what I mean John.
Funnily enough I have just used that photo on another board to compare.

[chopin-liszt]

I should add that the second I laid my eyes on your pics, I thought of Patrick's fish too.
I have enlarged and peered at your pics and it looks absolutely right to me too, for early Mdina or perhaps MDG. I reckon it is Boffo, wherever it was made.

There have been a whole load of big fishy things and dolphins all made recently at Mdina, found with plastic labels on (if they are still there), but this is a completely different "kettle of fish" to those.
The newer ones are all just teal with some silver chloride, encased in clear.

(Not that I know anything about animals or pwts.)

[chopin-liszt]

My guts would be on the side of it having been made at Mdina rather than MDG - simply on the grounds of the style of "all swirly colours in a thick clear casing", something much more Mdina-y than MDG-y to my eyes.

But MDG did all sorts of strange things that are appearing out of the woodwork, (eg Christine's conch shell, and even millifiori pwts have been found, the mystery of the bicolour Japanese-looking upright dolphin things) and there is the unknown of MCG...

My own interest in MDG is primarily confined to green glassware pieces, (no animals, fish or weights.)

[chriscooper]

Thank you Sue, I have put both in the listing but stressed the same I cannot be sure which but 100% sure it was made by his hand.

[Lustrousstone]

That bluish clear glass is certainly more Mdina than MDG. MDG clear seems to be clear

[chriscooper]

This definitely has a green tint to the glass.

[chopin-liszt]

I've got a "cube" vase, by Boffo, the casing is very, very yellow, not a good colour at all.
I don't know if it's Mdina or MGD.
An MDG lollipop has a good clear casing - no tinge of colour.

I would agree completely with what you've said in your listing, Chris - 100% Boffo, most likely Mdina (but MDG should not be discounted).
The blue tinge to the clear is more a Mdina thing.

Good luck with it, and sorry to hear of your misfortune. Hope you find something else soon!

[WhatHo!]

Hi, I am interested in your Whale but it is not a Boffo design I have ever seen before. As Boffo stuff is rare what provenance do you have for stating this 100% Boffo please. Wolfie