Topic: several queries - Mt St Helens Ash Glass perfume bottle

[jakgene]

Hi - I just received this rather pretty perfume bottle.
It is labelled Mt St Helens Ash Glass, and also has a signature, a date and a number on the  base.
Several queries - is Mt St Helens Ash Glass the same company as Glass Eye Studio? Who also do the volcanic ash glass.
And does anyone know whose the signature is on the base of this perfume bottle please.
The date I believe to be either 1981 or 1987 - the last digit looks like a y really so hard to know what it is mean to be - any ideas?
And it is numbered A844394
Thanks for looking.
Jackie 

[gaspy1]

The two I have are by Roger Vines, signed Vines 88 MSH ASH (Mt St Helens ash). Roger Vines has a studio on the Oregon Coast. It is said that he signed and dated only the best (but that may be marketing speak).

But I think several studios made use of the abundance of sand (=ash) produced by the volcano

[jakgene]

Thanks for that information. However hard I look though I can't make it read Vines. First letter appears to have a top loop, so P ,B ,or R possibly. Ant maybe th at the end .  Nice to know there were several companies though.
Thanks again.

[David E]

But I think several studios made use of the abundance of sand (=ash) produced by the volcano

I think the ash (potash) was used to allow the glass mix to melt at a much lower temperature. It is not sand/silica.

[Lustrousstone]

Volcanic ash isn't potash. It is basically silica and oxygen based, i.e., sand, with other minerals. Mount St Helens ash is discussed here http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1980GeoRL...7..949T