Topic: Mdina "signature" ?

[chriscooper]

Hi all, not even sure if it's a vase or a perfume bottle minus stopper? just over 4" high etched on base Mdina also POB or maybe 80B?
thanks Chris

[chopin-liszt]

Looks like a perfume bottle without a stopper. It should be one of those tall, teardrop shaped ones in clear glass.
The plastic label indicates later production, I don't pay attention to bits of this later period really, and I don't know what the extra figures next to the Mdina mark (it's not a signature) mean. This pattern is now called "Earth", but is a Michael Harris design, originally called Earthtones. It has been produced for a very, very, very long time.

[glassobsessed]

The numbers are usually a year, this bottle was signed "Mdina 06": http://picasaweb.google.com/Johnmj100/LaterMdinaGlass#5430029823498309282

John

[chopin-liszt]

  Your bottle is a marked one, John, as you well know
(and if you carry on like this you'll end up marked too)   
It's rather nice - the chevron pattern, I believe, is a Said design.

[chriscooper]

Thanks Sue :pb: did think/suspect it was a perfume bottle but you would have thought for a fiver he would have included the stopper :cry: the urn shape made me think it may have been a vase though, sorry for the 'signature' bit  
John would that be 80B for 1980? still a lot to learn  :ooh:
Chris

[glassobsessed]

That bit has me scratching my head Chris, I would think 08 is more likely than 80. No idea about the B (if it is a B) and if it is 08, why put a date upside down? :huh:

I wonder when they started to use the plastic version of their label, I would have assumed later than 1980. It may be worth contacting them via email to ask: http://www.mdinaglass.net/contacts.htm

John

[ahremck]

I wonder if the B refers to the particular colour choice.  This woould presume there is an A colour scheme and perhaps a C, D, etc.

This suggestion was made with respect to a pwt I have by Michael Bang that does not have a Hg, Hd or Hgd mark as expected.  Peter Harder made the colour suggestion and that seems to be sensible for my pwt.  Just a thought it may apply here.

Ross

[chopin-liszt]

The long teardrop-shaped stoppers break easily. It would be fairly easy, I imagine, to get one made.

I don't know what the letters mean, but I wouldn't think it refers to the colours or pattern, given it's one which is a core range at Mdina, produced almost from the start - it's a Michael Harris design, though mostly produced after he left.

Plastic labels came in in the '90s. (p. 133, "Michael Harris: Mdina Glass & Isle of Wight Studio Glass", by Mark hill)

[Greg.]

There's some useful info in the thread below regarding Mdina numbering in Mark Hills post.....


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