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Pottery => What's my Pottery? => Topic started by: cookiebella on February 25, 2010, 06:07:49 PM

Title: signature help please
Post by: cookiebella on February 25, 2010, 06:07:49 PM
another rather nice piece I acquired and absolutely no way can I track it down..... typical doctor's scrawl  :D anyone please?  Looks a bit scandinavian

Title: Re: signature help please
Post by: Anne on February 26, 2010, 02:13:10 AM
Can you add a bigger picture of the whole thing please. 80 pixels is way to small to see anything - around 600 pixels is fine.
Title: Re: signature help please
Post by: antiquerose123 on February 27, 2010, 09:59:45 AM
Did it have the remnants of a label on it???

Once I lucked out, as an item had had a label on it (but long gone) yet when I dusted the label area (sticky residue area left) the dusting of the ashes still helped to where the label had made contact with the item, and the gluey flat areas helped show where the raised words had no contact with the base.

All I am saying is that IF there is residue left from a label, sometimes a dusting of some ashes over that area will still help to see which areas of the raised label did not make contact with the item - thus I was still able to decipher WHAT the MISSING LABEL had said....all Thanks to the left over residue from the label.

So even if a label is missing - it might still be worth a light dusting of some black ash to see if this will highlight the residue......as any label with raised lettering on it with have areas of contact, and no contact (of the glue) when label had been there.

Always worth a try.....??
Title: Re: signature help please
Post by: cookiebella on March 18, 2010, 01:18:44 PM
no  label, found as is
Title: Re: signature help please
Post by: cookiebella on March 18, 2010, 01:19:22 PM
i put it on ebay a couple of times to see if it would generate any interest.  I did have several watchers who obviously knew what it was but I took it off before end of auction
Title: Re: signature help please
Post by: antiquerose123 on March 18, 2010, 09:18:56 PM
lol.....sneaky.

I just wish these artist would sign nice....I think I see a *A* or a *W* in it

WALFS ???   yeesh.....this is a tough one. 

Can we see a larger pic of the front like Anne asked for...
Title: Re: signature help please
Post by: cookiebella on March 19, 2010, 12:03:40 AM
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b47/cookiepops/IMG_7818.jpg
Title: Re: signature help please
Post by: Tigerchips on March 19, 2010, 12:13:10 AM
I'm no expert on studio pottery but could it be by Alan Caiger-Smith?
http://www.studiopottery.com/cgi-bin/mp.cgi?item=117
Title: Re: signature help please
Post by: cookiebella on March 19, 2010, 12:29:47 AM
mmmmmmm I thought that originally but if it was I would have had bids straight away when I tested it on ebay
Title: Re: signature help please
Post by: cookiebella on March 19, 2010, 12:30:56 AM
difficult to know which way up to read it, looks morelike my doctor's scrawl lol
Title: Re: signature help please
Post by: antiquerose123 on March 21, 2010, 09:57:16 AM
We will just have to keep working at this...
Title: Re: signature help please
Post by: flying free on May 01, 2010, 09:43:13 PM
Perhaps Julian Bellmont though?

http://www.studiopottery.com/cgi-bin/mp.cgi?item=287

I have a milk jug and sugar bowl that I am pretty certain are by him despite that the signature on mine are not EXACTLY like the one above or like yours.  Both the sig on my jug and the sig on the sugar bowl are different but the same if you know what I mean?

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