Topic: Sam Herman paperweight signature question

[brucebanner]

The same em or zm appears to be on both these pieces are they related? and what does the zm or em mean, the taller one is a tealight holder,

The paperweight is 3 inches in height and the tealight holder 6 inches, regards Chris.

[keith]

That is quite a find ! 

[chopin-liszt]

The pwt mark reads Sam Herman Studio, not Samuel J Herman or Samuel Herman, which is how he signs his work.
Perhaps the letters are the initials of the artist who made them?

[brucebanner]

Ok so not made by Sam but a student or someone else working in his glass studio?.

[chopin-liszt]

That's what I would think. It's not anything like a Sam Herman signature or his writing, which is thin and spikey. You'd need to find out where Sam was in '87 and who he was working with.

[brucebanner]

Ok it's 1981 not 87 will have another look, thanks for your help.

[brucebanner]

Looks like they have been on here before at least twice and there are a few online, i wonder if they are fakes?.

Enjoyed reading this old link http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,50103.msg283097.html#msg283097

[Alix]

If the tea light only has that EM signature

it's probably  E+M Glass from Cheshire  http://www.emglass.co.uk/about_us.htm

[chopin-liszt]

Welcome, Alix and thanks for your comment.
I've just got hold of my Scraffito bowl from Ed and Margaret Burke to compare the mark but it's not quite the same.
Depending on which way up you look at it, it reads what looks like either M3 or EW, but the letters look to be written by the same hand.
It might be well worth writing to them to ask if they made this piece.