Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. > Malta Glass
Mdina and the Boffos
WhatHo!:
Thanks for advising me about Leukaemia I wasn't aware how aggressive it can be.
WhatHo!:
Jim Munnelly pieces after he left Mdina can found, a few have turned up on eBay recently that are signed by him. Quite a few paperweights and this, http://www.result.ly/result/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZXRzeS5jb20vbGlzdGluZy8xNzM4MjQ3NDUvamltLW11bm5lbGx5LXN0dWRpby12YXNlLXNpZ25lZC1hcnQ=
Also check ebay completed listings.
Example from Mdina I have no idea.
Baked_Beans:
I'm really sorry to hear of your loss Rosie , you are brave to even talk about it here . My dad has been fighting a less aggressive form of cancer for over a decade now and it's dreadful .
I was so sad to discover, recently, that Vicente lost another son in a car accident . How much grief can one person(s) endure ??
There is one glimmer of hope , the 'Times of Malta' article about Mdina Glass said that Ettore had two sons . I hope they are doing fine and perhaps they might, one day, make contact with this message board !......This being a message in a glass bottle ;)
Kindest Regards, Mike.
Maria Rosaria Attard:
Hi, l would like to rectify all that has been stated by Elizabeth Harris regarding my father and brother Vincenzo and Ettore Boffo.
Liz was correct only when she said my father was heart broken after Ettore passed away.
Ettore died on the 29th of December 1971 and my father was not given an ultimatum by the goverment it was his choice to leave Mdina Glass and go to the MDG as he found it very hard to stay there after Ettore passed away.Mike Harris left late 70s,they were at my wedding in 1973 and left Malta some years later maybe 1978.,returned after some years and started a small factory in Gozo.
l'm am proud of my father and brother and will be happy to give any information regarding them and their work,my memory is still good !!
chopin-liszt:
How very kind of you to register and respond here. thank-you very much indeed.
I am much heartened to learn that the masterglassmaker Vicente Boffo, who we all very much admire here, still had a daughter to love after he lost his son, but I am sorry that you lost your brother in such a horrible way.
We did not know about you.
Apologies if anything wrong said here has upset you; our aim is to find out the truth about the work your father and brother did, to get their work and their true place in art history, as the important characters they were, recorded for posterity. I hope you will forgive the errors we have made so far.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version