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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Malta Glass => Topic started by: Littleblackhen on November 18, 2008, 11:07:39 AM
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I have this lovely bowl which was sold to me as a signed Mdina piece. It does have a signature on, but it seems very crudely done and not the usual signature I have seen before, so I wondered if anyone could identify it as correct or not?
I love the bowl anyway, but the signature just doesn't seem quite right.
I have done the best photos I can, so I hope you can see
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Hammer & Chizel job.
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I have managed to zoom in on the signature a bit. I hope this helps. If it is a forged signature, then why? The bowl is a nice one anyway :huh:
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I'm not convinced it actually says Mdina
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I'm with you on that I cant see it being Mdina certainly not from the sig on the base
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So if it isn't mdina, any ideas what it might be? I tried turning the signature upside down and it looks like tu design that way up, is there any such maker?
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Mtarfa, possibly?
Edit: Very similar labelled Mtarfa bowl on this shop site - HERE (http://www.artfostersbabycham.co.uk/16253.html?*session*id*key*=*session*id*val*)
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Thank you Nic, the style is quite similar as you say, and I was already thinking that the colour and pattern were nearer to mtarfa than anything else, so that may be the answer.
There is a signature on a Mtarfa piece here http://bootyliciousbargains.co.uk/maltese.aspx which doesn't really look much like it, but it says a squiggle is usual for maltese glass.
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There is another Mtarfa signature on this vase on ebay. I can't really see a resemblance in the signatures, even though the style and colour etc are looking quite like Mtarfa. :huh:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mtarfa-Organic-Pink-White-Glass-Vase-Signed_W0QQitemZ120305778832QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item120305778832&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A1%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318
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That looks like the signature found on older pieces
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There's a mix of signatures here, all quite different:
http://www.20thcenturyglass.com/glass_encyclopedia/maltese%20glass/maltese_glass.htm
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They seem to fall into two types though, spiky handwriting type with the very long f (which generally seems to be earlier I think before their stuff got all splodgy) and stubby block capitals type, which is what we seem to have here
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I think that I feel confident enough to attribute the bowl to Mtarfa now. It is a strange signature, with a mixture of capital and lowercase, but that doesn't seem that unusual, and the rest of the style, colour and pattern look very typical for Mtarfa, so that is what the label will say :)
Thanks to everyone for their help :)
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Sorry to come late to this, but i had a pink bowl with that signature and a black mtarfa label.