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Mdina and the Boffos

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chriscooper:
Welcome Maria and a big thank you for helping to tie some loose ends up we have gone from knowing virtually nothing for years to where we are now.
A big thank you also must go to Wolf Rayner for his tireless work helping to put all the jigsaw pieces together others too of course like  Patrick and Mike for sticking with it.

Maria I have a photo of a sitting dog in amber with a MDG label if you would care to have a look.

Chris

Baked_Beans:
Hi Maria,

So pleased to hear that Ettore's sons found this website  ! Please thank them from all of us here !!

I have always wanted to know where your father and brother worked before they made the brave step of coming here to England . Did they work in Murano ?

It's very kind of you to offer to answer some of our questions and it's so lovely to hear from you and to read your comments   :)

Thanks again, Mike

WhatHo!:
Hi Maria, the number I had for Jim is no longer working and I just got his mobile number, I will be contacting him soon. I will asking him for his email address but you need to contact me to receive that address, obviously I cant post it on here. Just click little mail envelope icon near my name and you can contact me from there.  Wolfie

Maria Rosaria Attard:
Hello Sue,
                l am over whelmed by what l keep on reading about my father,Vincenzo and brother Ettore,there is so much,new things keep coming up and pictures that take me back to a long time ago.l am happy to see that at a close look you can distinguish  their work.My father was so skilled and at the same time very humble,he always said that in his work every day you learn something,when making a piece of glass if it was not perfect he had the capability to turn it into something different.


The Mdina jugs and small jug l remember well but do not recall the square bottle having a handle.
Some of the MDG in the photo may have been made by my father l do not recognize his finishing touch in others.


Hi Mike,
             my father started working glass at a very young age in Naples,his parents gave up when he just did not want to know about going to school.When my brothers were young they lived for a while in Murano where he worked and returned to Naples just before l was born.After managing a factory for many years and having his own production within the factory,when it closed down he decided to move,that is when in 1969 he started working in UK. Ettore had started working and learning glass making under my father,became a good craftman and was tops at making the swans.


Hi Cris,
           The dog is one of his, l had one but mine broke years back like other things,not by my children by different maids l had.
l have now secured most of his things in a cabinet,under lock and key. (better late than never ).l will in time post photos of what l have.


                                          Best regards to all,Maria

Maria Rosaria Attard:
Hi Wolfie,l have sent you an email,l hope you have received it.Please let me know.
                       
                                       Many thanks,Maria

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