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Offline Wuff

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Re: Mystery signature
« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2021, 08:20:19 PM »
Oddly for some reason (and I'm probably wrong!) I can imagine inscribing that sig as an H W would be easier and flow more easily and then doing the star  than it would be doing it the other way up. Do you know what I mean?
Agreed - but who could be HW - any idea?
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Re: Mystery signature
« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2021, 07:24:47 PM »
Just been looking up sand blasting and came across this heavy vase that looks to have a very similar signature, maybe from a different hand. Looks like the vase was Caithness. http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,16350.0.html

Vase: http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-7943
Signature: http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-7942
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Re: Mystery signature
« Reply #12 on: November 30, 2021, 08:57:54 PM »
Thank you for the suggestion, Ekimp, but I don't think the two signatures are close enough to indicate the same studio or artist.

Nor do I believe, the vase to go with the signature is Caithness: it was suggested the vase could be Caithness CT151. But if you compare the image on http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-7943 with the attached image of CT151, you'll agree it's not the same vase (despite daffodils as theme in common). Whilst I might be wrong (my main topic are the paperweights, not glassware) I don't remember having seen this shape from Caithness before. Colour could be Harvest Gold - but this is very difficult to say from photographs, were the lighting has a big influence.
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Re: Mystery signature
« Reply #13 on: November 30, 2021, 09:48:37 PM »
Yes, I have no idea about their Caithness attribution.

I thought the signature on the linked vase looked like yours except that they haven’t lifted the stylus when making the character after the ‘M’ as though maybe the same mark made by different people, one with more precision than the other. Although it doesn’t have the additional ‘*’ it does have a different symbol. Wouldn’t help much anyway if the vase is unknown :)
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