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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: mdina glass on April 18, 2019, 05:41:22 PM

Title: Mdina boffo jug?
Post by: mdina glass on April 18, 2019, 05:41:22 PM

I have had this for 15 years now and im unsure if mdina/boffo.

Title: Re: Mdina boffo jug?
Post by: mdina glass on April 18, 2019, 06:00:06 PM

here are some more pics.

Title: Re: Mdina boffo jug?
Post by: mdina glass on April 18, 2019, 06:01:41 PM

here are some more pics.

Title: Re: Mdina boffo jug?
Post by: mdina glass on April 18, 2019, 06:03:27 PM

sorry if im not doing this right im trying to get pics of my phone onto pc then here.

Title: Re: Mdina boffo jug?
Post by: mdina glass on April 19, 2019, 12:45:20 PM

Can any one help shed some light on this piece for me ,thank you in advance

Title: Re: Mdina boffo jug?
Post by: chopin-liszt on April 19, 2019, 12:53:55 PM

It's known that the Boffos did make jugs in their own time, and that they were for sale at Valetta.
The silver deposits do look like Papa Boffo's work, but the strapping might be Ettore.
I'm really not sure. I don't know enough about Ettore's work to be able to tell his from others.
I don't know if Ettore could produce silver deposits. Not everybody could, it wasn't easy.
I do know that Papa Boffo tended to make his strapping in a grid sort of formation, which this isn't.

Title: Re: Mdina boffo jug?
Post by: mdina glass on April 19, 2019, 01:16:23 PM

Thank you for your reply much appreciated, the research must go on I guess. Regards kev