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Title: 2 pairs of figurines - id please? Toffolo?
Post by: Trebor on March 08, 2011, 06:49:11 PM

Hi these belong to a friend and he asked if i could find anything about them for him i told him i know some people who can .Thank you

Title: Re: 2 pairs of figurines - id please?
Post by: Paul S. on March 08, 2011, 07:16:42 PM

 I know little about these figurines, but suspect they may be Murano.    Lets see what the knowledgable have to say.

Title: Re: 2 pairs of figurines - id please?
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 08, 2011, 07:23:19 PM

I would agree, these look like good quality Murano, perhaps even at the standard of Franco Toffolo - but his is the only name I know for this sort of thing, we need somebody who does know to pop in.

Title: Re: 2 pairs of figurines - id please?
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 09, 2011, 12:53:03 PM

Anybody with some knowledge of Murno figurines think that these could possibly be Toffolo?

Title: Re: 2 pairs of figurines - id please?
Post by: TxSilver on March 09, 2011, 02:40:21 PM

I think the figures are Murano, but I don't know who. Toffolo is actually UK and not Murano. He trained in Murano, but his furnace is in England. Blackpool or something like that. I would have to check the name of the place again and I'm feeling too lazy right now.

Title: Re: 2 pairs of figurines - id please?
Post by: Trebor on March 09, 2011, 03:03:03 PM

 Any info on these is most appreciated. Thank you

Title: Re: 2 pairs of figurines - id please?
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 09, 2011, 03:10:48 PM

Toffolo worked in :smg: :sc: SCOTLAND :sc: :smg:
(although now he has completely retired, he is in England somewhere)

Title: Re: 2 pairs of figurines - id please?
Post by: TxSilver on March 09, 2011, 03:37:43 PM

Thanks, Sue. I am getting my British countries confused. They are both so beautiful. Apparently Franco thought so, too.

Title: Re: 2 pairs of figurines - id please?
Post by: chriscooper on March 09, 2011, 03:57:02 PM

No you are correct Anita, Franco Toffelo came to England in the sixties and ran a studio for a lot of years in Blackpool
Venetian glass company, though he did later move to Caithness still doing a bit with John deacons I believe?
Talking to a lady about a piece of his at a fair at the Raebok stadium in Bolton and she said he was actually in Blackpool upto 1980?
but don't quote me on that.
Chris

Title: Re: 2 pairs of figurines - id please?
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 09, 2011, 04:03:32 PM

After retiring from Caithness he did spend Thursday mornings (I believe) working alongside John Deacons and Willie Manson, but is now completely retired.
I'm lucky enough to own a fabulous sommerso bowl he made there.
(I'll get an image soon, if you like?)

Mod: for bowl see:  http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,39144.0.html

apologies, I didn't know he'd worked in England. :-[

I did once see him once, (in quite a flurry) running out of the Strathearn Gallery in Crieff - where much of his last work, done in JD's studio, was sold.

Title: Re: 2 pairs of figurines - id please? Toffolo?
Post by: KevinH on March 10, 2011, 02:45:03 AM

There are several threads from past years discussing Franco Toffolo - use "toffolo" in Search to see them.

This reminded me that I had not added new pics [tinypics ones were lost] to one of the threads I started back in 2005. Pics now added. So if anyone wants to see that thread, which was a "what do you think" type of discussion, please click here (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,1554.msg9949.html#msg9949).