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Title: Iconic 1980s Studio Glass Vase/Bowl - Impossible Signature (Part 2)
Post by: horochar on March 23, 2013, 01:44:55 PM

Adding to my collection of high-end studio glass with impossible signatures is this beauty.  (See my prior posts for Part 1, flying saucer vase).  Look at the quality!  Screams out 1980s, in my opinion.  I'm pulling out my hair trying to decipher the signature: Torysing? Tobysong? Toby Sung? It's just too good to be made by an anonymous hobbyist.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Charles

Title: Re: Iconic 1980s Studio Glass Vase/Bowl - Impossible Signature (Part 2)
Post by: ahremck on March 24, 2013, 08:32:02 AM

Left Field Thought!

In my memory most artists sign the name first and the date next.  I wonder If this is a fashion designer piece that someone has marked for insurance purposes with their own name "Toby Sing" is my guess.

Ross

Title: Re: Iconic 1980s Studio Glass Vase/Bowl - Impossible Signature (Part 2)
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 24, 2013, 11:55:57 AM

I've googled Toby Sing and glass, and I got absolutely nowhere.  ???
Looking at the work itself, if this piece had been found in the uk, I would have been suggesting Iestyn Davies/ Blowzone as a possible contender... wonder if it might have been somebody who worked with him... or (far more likely) somebody fabulous and antipodean I've not had the pleasure of encountering yet.

Title: Re: Iconic 1980s Studio Glass Vase/Bowl - Impossible Signature (Part 2)
Post by: rosieposie on March 24, 2013, 04:22:47 PM

Mysing is a surname, so could this be T. Mysing?

Title: Re: Iconic 1980s Studio Glass Vase/Bowl - Impossible Signature (Part 2)
Post by: flying free on March 25, 2013, 12:01:02 AM

I read that as Tom Sing ???
m

Title: Re: Iconic 1980s Studio Glass Vase/Bowl - Impossible Signature (Part 2)
Post by: Fuhrman Glass on March 25, 2013, 01:13:41 AM

Toensing Art Glass, Coon Rapids, MN., USA ?

Title: Re: Iconic 1980s Studio Glass Vase/Bowl - Impossible Signature (Part 2)
Post by: horochar on March 25, 2013, 02:12:59 AM

I'll be darned.  That's it.  Robert (Bob) Toensing.  Makes sense, insofar as I'm here in (freezing) Minnesota.  For the amazing quality of this piece, there is virtually nothing about him on the net.  No gallery representation, no auction history.  No nothing.  Needs to hire a publicist!

Title: Re: Iconic 1980s Studio Glass Vase/Bowl - Impossible Signature (Part 2)
Post by: langhaugh on March 25, 2013, 05:53:41 AM

It looks like a great piece. Also, great to find an attribution for it.
David

Title: Re: Iconic 1980s Studio Glass Vase/Bowl - Impossible Signature (Part 2)
Post by: rosieposie on March 25, 2013, 12:45:31 PM

Oh Charles,  you must be thrilled!!
It is a wonderful piece of Studo Glass and you weren't that far out m,  but wow, Furhman Glass,  what amazing knowledge! 
Hopefully for you Charles,  you will find more of this lovely work as it is local to you.  :)


Added:  I just saw this link to some more of his work  and thought you might like to see it:

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/5517702

Title: Re: Iconic 1980s Studio Glass Vase/Bowl - Impossible Signature (Part 2)
Post by: Fuhrman Glass on March 25, 2013, 02:17:46 PM

I think he also has made glass working tools as my favorite jacks have his name stamped on them. I got them from a friend of mine many years ago and guess he got them from him.