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Title: Rooster Shield - age range on this label?
Post by: svazzo on August 27, 2006, 08:10:17 PM

Hi everyone,
I received an email on my website asking about this label, and I didnt have an answer for it. I looked though and thought it was only on touristy type pieces, like a glass bell I have. But recently received this vase, looks like a scavo piece with irridescent surface, and it has the same label as my bell.
Wondering if anyone knew what age range was this label in use, since I dont think the yellow vase I have now is new at all.
The rooster is bitting a snake, and has what looks like a ferret on its back.

(http://www.svazzo.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/.pond/shield.jpg.w300h311.jpg)

(http://www.svazzo.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/.pond/scavoyellowface.jpg.w300h400.jpg)

The vase has a face decoration on each side.
Javier

Title: Rooster Shield - age range on this label?
Post by: horochar on August 28, 2006, 08:57:37 PM

From a graphic arts and font standpoint, I believe it would date from the late 1930s through 1940s.  This style of font was passe by the 1950s.  I initiated some discussion on this label a while back, and maybe the discussion will shed some light on maker, since it's such a unique label.  http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,4809.0.html (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,4809.0.html)

Title: Rooster Shield - age range on this label?
Post by: svazzo on August 29, 2006, 05:05:02 AM

This label does look older from the one my glass bell has, and it is about 2 times larger, but I dont think I can say its from the 30's.
 
Also, the label I was sent on my website, (from the original person asking me about the label) is on an opalescent swan, and it looks like it is from the 60's from the style. That is why I was asking the time frame it was used, if anyone knows.

If anyone else has the same label on their items we can post them here, and see the styles, what items they are, and maybe come up with a time frame, a maker, or leave it as just an import label.
Javier

Title: Rooster Shield - age range on this label?
Post by: Anne on August 29, 2006, 03:35:39 PM

I replied on the Labels thread about your rooster label Javier, but I think it got a bit lost in the later posts - this was my reply:

Quote from: "Anne"

Javier, your rooster shield is the same label as Jim Sapp posted as found on fairy lamps and which Sue mentioned on her sommerso gold and green duck both earlier in this thread. No-one seems to know who it's from yet but I did notice that Campanella also use a chicken in their more recent-looking labels. Could there be a connection? Two glass firms with chickens may be unusual or are the Muranese especially fond of chickens?
See this label for comparison:
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-1899

Hope this helps a little.