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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: BJB on October 14, 2007, 11:58:42 AM
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I have picked up this signed shell which looks like clinker but is glass, wonder if its that corrowatsit stuff
http://i22.tinypic.com/zkh7yv.jpg back view
http://i22.tinypic.com/246m81u.jpg front view
http://i20.tinypic.com/15e8cnd.jpg signature
Does anyone have any idea who made it?
Barbara
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Your shell looks like it is a iridescent studio piece. The surface does look like it has a pitted coroso finish. It is a nice shell. It is signed, so it should be easier to track down who did it.
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Hi,
Many thanks for the reply, I know its signed, but with initials and some under the very faded label, so I think it may be quite hard to find out who it was. Maybe a small studio piece?
Barbara
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can you tell at all what the label says (or some of what the label says). i know it's sometimes easier to see in person than in a photo due to angles and light and such. any info there might help id as well.
bidda
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I have peered at the label using an eye glass and also looked under my daughters microscope, but I can't make out anything. It is really frustrating.
Barbara
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Someone like this http://www.holderofthestone.com/Sculpture.html ?
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Hi Adam,
Its a bit more rugged and craggy than those, it really looks like something out the bottom of an iron smelting works, but very artistic.
Barbara
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I don't think that it was made in Murano. It isn't a "popular" colour/effect here and also size and shape don't fit with anything that I have seen up to now. I think that it was a "generic" studio piece.
Sincerely
Alex
www.artofvenice.com (http://www.artofvenice.com)
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Well, I know this query was nearly five years ago, but here goes...
The maker is Colin Heaney of Byron Bay, the most easterly town on mainland Australia.
The signature reads CBHg for Cape Byron Hot Glass, his business name used in the late 1980s and early 90s. The sticker may say Heaney Glass Australia or Cape Byron Hot Glass Studio or similar, as several different versions have been used. The date is 80-something, but hidden by the sticker.
You can see several examples of the signature and some versions of the sticker on Steve Lynn's website (http://www.paperweightpassion.com/?page_id=19&wppa-album=45&wppa-cover=0&wppa-occur=1).
It is easy to find information about Colin Heaney. He was born in Canada and came to Australia as a young man. He started glassblowing in 1983 by importing a US expert to set up a furnace and show him how to do it. He was enormously prolific in studio glass at all price points from simple paperweights to large and elaborate organic sculptures. His wildly successful business at one time employed 15 people. Almost everyone who was anyone in hot glass in Australia in the 1980s and 90s worked there at one time or another. He sold the glass business a few years ago to Matthew Farrell (http://farrellglassdesign.com/).
Colin Heaney now designs silk scarves and swimware (all very fetching, too!). Google to find examples of his designs in glass and silk.
Trevor
PS. I claim no prize in this instance for the longest time between a query and an answer. This one is only 4 years and 7 months old. I've just answered another query that is a mere 12 days short of its fifth birthday.
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Fantastic ;D and thanks for the links.
m
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What is even more fantastic is that tinypic hasn't eaten the pics! Well done on the ID
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Trevor what are you on... whatever it is i want loads of it.... and some more. :o 8)