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Title: ID for candlestick please
Post by: oldglassman on November 08, 2010, 04:47:03 PM
Hi ,  I have been asked by a friend to post this 8.9 inch candlestick in the hope that somebody can help with identification, the Amethyst cone is a void,no base, with a continuous spiral of applied glass and a clear glass sconce,it appears to be signed but have no idea by whom were and when , weighing 654 grms I would think it is lead glass

   Cheers ,
                     Peter.
Title: Re: ID for candlestick please
Post by: chopin-liszt on November 08, 2010, 05:34:14 PM
"First Glass" would appear to be Bob Crooks on googling - but I can't get the link I found to open. It looks like his work too, Peter.
Bob Crooks is one of the major makers to come from the illustrious stable of The Glasshouse in London - he was there in '86. I (seem to) collect the work of one of his students - Phil Atrill.
Title: Re: ID for candlestick please
Post by: bubbles on November 08, 2010, 05:34:36 PM
Looks like it says First Glass to me. 
SNAP!
Title: Re: ID for candlestick please
Post by: glassobsessed on November 08, 2010, 05:35:27 PM
http://www.bobcrooks.com/
Title: Re: ID for candlestick please
Post by: oldglassman on November 08, 2010, 05:49:31 PM
 :tof: hey presto and the answer appears , I got the link to Bob Crooks to work and low and behold their it was in his 'production' 'catalogue ,

cheers for that I will pass it on  :thup:

Peter.
Title: Re: ID for candlestick please
Post by: chopin-liszt on November 08, 2010, 06:25:50 PM
His work is sold by several highly reputable Art galleries who have a serious interest in glass up here in Scotland and a major one "down south" who I know sells his work is Primavera.
Nice find for your friend!
Title: Re: ID for candlestick please
Post by: Anne on November 08, 2010, 07:04:05 PM
Also seen at the Red Barn Gallery (http://www.redbarngallery.co.uk/) at Melkinthorpe in Cumbria, where I saw some of his work earlier this year when I attended the opening of the Adam Aaronson exhibition there.