Topic: Please help us to ID this Glass flamingo family.

[Caribbean]

Dear forum members,

First and foremost, a Happy new year to you all of you.

We live in the Caribbean and have a collection of 4 glass flamingo's originally that were brought to our island from Switzerland.
See attached pictures. The biggest is 6.9 inch / 17.5 cm tall the smalles 1.77 inch / 4.5 cm.

We have been searching online but never saw something just like this. Since we have reasons to believe it's 'hand made and exclusive' We would love to learn from you what you thoughts are towards, if its rare, brand/maker/value etc. or any tips towards how to find this information.

We are new on this forum, (happy we found it!) please let me know if you like me to create links to a higher resolution or other angle pictures.


We thank you all for your responses!

Cheers,


Caribbean family

[Lustrousstone]

Welcome to the board. Nice birds. However, they are lampwork, which could have been made anywhere at any time, as it requires little equipment. Thus it is likely you may never find a maker.

[NevB]

Try looking up Murano lampwork flamingos, there are several similar online but none exactly the same. I'm not saying they are Murano but giving the proximity to Switzerland it's possible, but pinpointing a maker is virtually impossible.

[chopin-liszt]

  Two seem to have some opalescent glass in it (the creamy-blue blobs on their backs). That isn't the most common sort of glass for a lampworker to be able to get hold of, is it?
Would that help to at least narrow the field?

[NevB]

There is actually one online which is attributed to Lauscha Bimini glass, but it's an old post and doesn't give much detail. It has the same opalescent blobs on the back.

[chopin-liszt]

The big three toe-d feet would be consistent with that id, Nev.
But a tripod is a good, basic, stable shape somebody else could easily have copied or found themselves.

[Lustrousstone]

Anything that says Lauscha Bimimi should be ignored, as one is in Germany and the other in is Austria respectively. I suspect the opalescent spots ae actually thin blobs of white. Murano also seems to be the default for any lampwork with little to back it up

[NevB]

I didn't research the attribution at all but it might be somewhere to start.

[chopin-liszt]

Far too many folk cobble Lauscha and Bimini together. I've seen it so often I appear to have started to "recognise" it.
Thank-you for explaining clearly, Christine. And I bow to your superior knowledge of this sort of thing too.