Topic: Help on signature please

[dinklepip]

Is anyone able to decipher the signature on this little vase please

[chopin-liszt]

I suspect it might read Glassform. But I'm getting that from looking at the way the iridesence is worked on the surface, which looks rather John Ditchfeld to me and then looking at the mark, and interpreted it from knowing what it should look like.
It's not a signature, just the Studio name.

Could you try rubbing a little talc over the mark with your thumb to bring it up, and taking another pic, please?

[flying free]

Think it reads Shaks which is Will Shakspeare (that is how his name is spelt)
I can't remember the range name though - ah it's called 'Crunch'
m

[chopin-liszt]

 
I can see a Shaks in it too, M. But I can make Glasform too and I do have a JD piece with this very mirrory dark purply iridescent splodgy surface decor, it's one he's well known for. 
I just got my Shaks vase out to check if the mark looks the same.
I can't find the signature on it. 
It's there. I know it's there. I've seen it before.

[flying free]

Sue, the SHAKS sig is very very hard to find but it will be there.  I had to hold one of mine under a strong led light last night to even see it faintly.  It definitely could not be seen with just daylight and I remember buying it and thinking it wasn't signed, so to find the sig last night was a revelation 
I am pretty sure this is a Will piece and from the Crunch range but the sig doesn't look like those on my pieces - so you might be right.
I'd been looking for Della's bowl as well.  Maybe Della's bowl is Glasform as well perhaps as that has a similarish sig to this one?
hmm.
Crunch range here - but there are a variety I believe and he has been doing these for a few years so there will be variation:
https://shakspeareglass.co.uk/collections/crunch-1

I went on a glassblowing day with Will.  He is fabulous  (though the Crunch range and shapes are not my cup of tea - but he does some other pieces that are simply utterly beautiful to look at, some of which I have, but couldn't afford the piece I really wanted)

[chopin-liszt]

I know it's there, I've found it before, but my eyesight has deteriorated since.
Talcum powder, finding my closest-up pair of glasses and getting out a magnifying glass doesn't help. My eyes just won't cooperate any more.
The link definitely shows the shape, which is not typical of JD at all, and the surface decoration, which is pretty similar - mirrory and dark.
You've convinced me. 

[glassobsessed]

His signatures are now much easier to spot, pretty sure this one says Shaks too, shape is right, thought Crunch also.

John

[chopin-liszt]

  You know there's really one on the bottom of my piece, don't you, John. You've definitely seen it too.