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Mdina and the Boffos
chopin-liszt:
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Your Father's finishing touch was very fine and delicate, Maria. It is easy to tell apart from less experienced work.
I know he is not responsible for finishing the rather lumpy and lopsided bits, but I did wonder if he was teaching somebody during the making of some of them - getting the apprentice to form the shapes, but perhaps he did some of the decorating?
On the other hand, the grid pattern he favoured might well have been the way he taught apprentices to do it, and it's one that perhaps isn't too difficult to copy, especially when taught by such a master. :)
rosieposie:
Hello again Maria, what a lot of interesting information you are giving us, and so much help.
Most of my collection is Glass animals and birds. Amongst them I have a dog that is the same shape as Chris's, but it is in green glass. Sadly there is no label, but do you know if your Father made these in other colours or just in the Amber coloured glass?
We are all looking forward to seeing pictures of your collection, and sharing ours with you... and I will just HAVE to find one of Ettore's swans to add to my collection!! You have given me a new project!
WhatHo!:
--- Quote from: Maria Rosaria Attard on November 19, 2014, 05:17:57 PM ---Ettore had started working and learning glass making under my father,became a good craftman and was tops at making the swans.
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I have been researching Patricks Whitefriars Lehr sheets and Ettore certainly did make swans, here in the 1967 week 24 he made 680!! These would have been in either Twilight, Arctic Blue, Flint or Ruby.
rosieposie:
Oh Wow! I was thinking of Maltese Swans, assuming they were different to Whitefriars... I have just started to collect those... might that mean that I may have one of Ettore's , and if so, how would I know?
Baked_Beans:
Thanks Maria,
We so much need your help here ...it's great !
There are quite a few Whitefriars swan collectors that are members of this website so they will have to work out how to identify an Ettore swan. There are subtle differences in how they are made , depending on who made them ...so it's going to be an interesting challenge ;)
Thanks very much for the information about Murano and Naples. Did your father work for the same company in Murano or did he move from one company to another ? It might be possible to identify some of his early Murano animals if we knew which company he worked for . There is a fabulous website here called the Murano zoo which is devoted to animals made by all the different companies in Murano , you may have seen it before but if you havn't just click on the blue link below ....there is page after page, all from different time periods...the companies that produced them are all listed down the left hand side and you just click on them to see what comes up !
https://sites.google.com/site/muranozoo/
Also do you have the name of the factory in Naples where your father was manager , it would be interesting to see if any of the members of this message board have examples of the glass that was produced there.
Thanks very much ! Cheers, Mike.
P.s. Sorry Rosie our posts crossed !
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