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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Animals & Figurines => Topic started by: glassobsessed on July 03, 2016, 08:37:06 PM
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A collector kindly showed me this set today, many of the figures still have their paper labels. The initials on the box and labels look to be GA.
John
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The labels read not only GA, but "foreign".
They may have been added by the importer, for legal reasons, rather than be anything to do with a maker.
These are really wonderful. I might not be terribly keen on small animals, but musicians are something else in lampwork figurines to me.
I did once find a group of three lampworked frog musicians, but I gave them away. (Fool that I am!)
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Japanese maybe?
m
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I had assumed Lausha because of the 'Foreign' labels but Japanese instead of German would be the other contender in the circumstances. Likewise I assumed GA would have been the importer/exporter.
I was just happy to see a set of nine undamaged figures with their original box! ::)
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I'm delighted to see them, :) I'd love to own them, with or without box.
A lampwork orchestra would combine my two major loves, one is on my "ultimate wish list".
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Reduced to 1/- oh my! That must have been a bargain even in pre-decimal days!
How something as delicate as that has survived all this time is little short of a miracle. :)
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Looking at my first photo again Rosie I think one of the figures has lost a hat - far left at the back. :'(
There was no indication of a date, can anyone suggest anything more precise than 50s/60s/70s?
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You can probably rule out the 1970s (decimalistion in 1971) and I think the design on the box is 50s/early 60s rather than late 60s.
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I will never forget the year of decimalisation. It was the year Hendrix released Voodoo Chile as a single and my copy cost six shillings/30p. It's printed in black and white on the cover, not a sticky label.
They look '50s to me. Not that I actually remember the '50s. ;)
I have a boxed set of 6 funny cocktail sticks, with "Foreign No. 59.22 printed on the back, and the price written on in biro.Tthey were 9/- !!
That is a *lot* more expensive than this set of musicians, for many fewer and much smaller items.
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It may be just my way of thinking; but why would a box showing only animal figures on the lid be used to hold a set of musicians? Is it really the correct box? If not it could confuse the dating.
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Possibly a one-box fits all approach. Different times...
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The box states "Hand made ornamental glass figures" and not "glass animals" - I too thought one box fits all... The box itself was thin and made with cheap looking cardboard - perhaps more of a post war years (50s) product rather than later when there was more affluence.
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I think the box is 1950s looking at jigsaw puzzle boxes that purport to be from that era.
Also I think three of the figures are a little curious - the ones with the flatter pinched feet and multi coloured eyes. Their eyes and their feet are different from the other figures aren't they? Also the others all appear to have amber hair and the colours of their glass is more muted than the three with the odd eyes. The yellow on the one on the left is very bright compared to the yellow on the others. :-[ sorry John. I'm not sure that is a complete matching set but I could be wrong.
m
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They could well have been made in a "cottage industry" sort of manner - lots of individuals, working at home, to a general specification, so they may not all have been made by the same person. ???
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Yes they could. But they are quite different :-\ They look as though they might be two different sets to me :-[
The colours of the glass is also very different and the design of the pieces.
m
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They could well be a marriage of sorts, I agree two styles. Almost every one had a label, some were red and some green, all the same supplier.
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It does look like 2 different troupes to me, researching some of these makers it seems the majority of figurines made were animals so it is feasible to assume that they just had one box design done for all figurines.