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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: collard123 on February 10, 2014, 08:02:10 PM
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Hi guys , does this vase strike anyone else as looking very like a Mdina piece ? - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/141188671125?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649
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It's a reasonably early bit of Mdina Earthtones, maybe mid-late'70s.
Well spotted!
The signature is a forgery, obviously. It's not even a very good one. ::) It's far too big and almost legible!
I've written to the seller to tell them.
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Glad I've not completely lost my touch and not going completely mad!
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Odd back catalogue too, or is it just me?
Ebay completed listing 1 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/J-Ford-Studio-Glass-/141179490515?pt=UK_Art_Glass&hash=item20def410d3&nma=true&si=YbKiVovn8MrpM3cWghPh8DouCMg%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557)
Ebay completed listing 2 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peter-Layton-Art-Glass-Piece-/141133705556?pt=UK_Art_Glass&hash=item20dc397154&nma=true&si=YbKiVovn8MrpM3cWghPh8DouCMg%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557)
Ebay completed listing 3 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Schneider-Signed-Glass-Vase-/141159133895?pt=UK_Art_Glass&hash=item20ddbd72c7&nma=true&si=YbKiVovn8MrpM3cWghPh8DouCMg%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557)
John
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Must have got an etching pen for Xmas ! At least they are spelled correctly - if a bit wobbly
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Hi collard123, welcome to the Board.
I guess your comment about "getting an etching pen for Christmas" was intended to be tongue in cheek. But it could be seen as a direct statement that you believe the seller was responsible for adding a false signature.
The board policy on posts relating to sales items that may not be as described includes: Do not state anything is a fact, unless you can provide documentary proof! And also "If it is felt that a posting is taking an unfair position in respect of a person selling on an on-line auction the posting will be removed or edited to remove bias."
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The seller told me it came from a house clearance and the lady whose house it was, told her that it had been made by a relative.
Maybe the relative had a dremel?
A whole load of folk could have had a dremmeling wotsit on it, before the seller got hold of it. ;D
There is absolutely no way of knowing how the marks got onto the base.
But they are not Peter Layton's signature and it is a bit of Mdina Earthtones.
What is worrying is that the bidding has gone a fair bit over what I would expect this sort of Earthtones vase to go for. The bidders appear to think it is the correct signature. >:(
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Sorry about that - I'll consider my wrists well and truly slapped :(
Whats a Dremmel ;D
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An electric vibrating etching pen thingy.
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Mmmmm ? :P
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Here's mine signed Mdina ;)