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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: jl smout on May 24, 2013, 03:30:13 PM

Title: Paperweight ID help needed.
Post by: jl smout on May 24, 2013, 03:30:13 PM: Hello, all, new member here. I have these two paperweights, both of which I have picked up cheaply in charity shops: the green one about two years ago, and the blue one last month. They are both signed, but I can't read the signatures and identify them.

[Mod: Please see new thread (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,52883.msg300322.html#msg300322) for the Blue one]

http://i662.photobucket.com/albums/uu348/HMSAjax/mercer011_zps5e41a9bf.jpg

http://i662.photobucket.com/albums/uu348/HMSAjax/mercer012_zpsf50cd3a3.jpg
Title: Re: Paperweight ID help needed.
Post by: KevinH on May 27, 2013, 10:28:57 PM: Hi, welcome to the Board.

Please start a new thread for one of those paperweights and I (or another mnoderator) will tidy this one up.

Having two items in one thread can get get confusing especially if there are many comments made.
Title: Re: Paperweight ID help needed.
Post by: jl smout on May 31, 2013, 03:23:18 PM: Done. Thanks for the reply.
Title: Re: Paperweight ID help needed.
Post by: w84it on May 31, 2013, 06:16:57 PM: Hi. Just wondering if the signature on the green one is Cowdy? Hard to tell from the picture. I'm away. From home so unable to compare with my own Cowdy weights.

Keith
Title: Re: Paperweight ID help needed.
Post by: Wuff on May 31, 2013, 10:01:07 PM: Seconded: Harry Cowdy
Title: Re: Paperweight ID help needed.
Post by: jl smout on July 02, 2013, 10:46:13 AM: Thank you everyone for your help. So it's a Cowdy. Thanks.
Title: Re: Paperweight ID help needed.
Post by: tropdevin on July 02, 2013, 04:07:28 PM: ***

Hi.

I have never heard of Harry Cowdy as a glass maker (my failing, I am sure...). I found the Cowdy Gallery website (http://cowdygallery.co.uk/) but it seems to be unrelated to glass. Can anyone help enlighten me?

Alan
Title: Re: Paperweight ID help needed.
Post by: Lustrousstone on July 02, 2013, 04:37:54 PM: Pauline Solven's husband. Looks like the gallery is no longer in existence
http://www.caa.org.uk/exhibitions/archive/2008/glasshouse/pauline-solven/
Title: Re: Paperweight ID help needed.
Post by: tropdevin on July 02, 2013, 04:46:46 PM: ***

Thanks Christine. Do I gather from the link that Harry Cowdy was a BBC employee, and that Pauline is the glass maker? So is the Cowdy signature hers?

Alan
Title: Re: Paperweight ID help needed.
Post by: Wuff on July 02, 2013, 07:05:08 PM: Cannot publish it here (copied from an ebay auction some time ago), but I have an image of the base of a pw with this signature plus a transparent plastic label saying "Cowdy - Gloucestershire - Handmade in England".
Title: Re: Paperweight ID help needed.
Post by: Lustrousstone on July 02, 2013, 07:07:20 PM: Depends whether she was the only glassmaker I suppose. More of a studio mark than a signature
Title: Re: Paperweight ID help needed.
Post by: Wuff on July 02, 2013, 07:18:16 PM: Quote from: Lustrousstone on July 02, 2013, 07:07:20 PM
Depends whether she was the only glassmaker I suppose. More of a studio mark than a signature
Could well be: I also have an image of a signature "Cowdy Glass Workshop" - but none with a given name (Harry): could be a studio name, carrying Pauline Solven's married name - and her husband was possibly never involved in glass making himself.