Topic: Mate for Salviati serpant fish. Murano? Maker? Age? Help?

[scavo]

I found this Murano looking fish yesterday. It reminds me of the clowns and seems a million miles away from the serpent fish on the right.

I think the fish on the right is Salviati. But assume the one on left is generic.

Stands about 15" high, weights a whopping 3kg

Thanks in advance for your for your comments

[Lustrousstone]

I suspect the one on the left is more likely to be modern Chinese or Bulgarian

[scavo]

Bulgarian!?! It's not modern. It had at least 20 years of grime on it when caught it.

[Lustrousstone]

I'm not sure grime is a measure of age and 1998 seems pretty modern to me.
Many of the clowns are made in Bulgaria...

[scavo]

So how do you tell a Bulgarian clown from a Murano clown.

Where do you get 1998 from? Is that a connection to Bulgarian glass production I should investigate?

Anyhow, who ever made it, it must be a flagship of some kind as the scale. It is not something a tourist could easily carry in hand luggage post 9/11 and all the various restrictions ... it could have gone in a suitcase I suppose. If it were an imported item, retailed in the UK, it would have been expensive solely on transportation costs.

I remember before 9/11 people used to bring all kinds of stuff back on return flights from their holidays. Much of that has been made more difficult, but of course not impossible.

What am I on about?