Thursday 23 July 2020

Charity Shop Puzzle – Were These Painted by Valerie Pfeiffer?

I bought this pair of small glasses from my favourite Vale Wild charity shop in Evesham for about 50p each a while back simply because they were pretty, hand painted and I could see them with a tealight inside.

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I thought they’d been perhaps painted by someone amateur having a go at glass painting as some of the lines on the flowers and leaves looked like something I might have done ……

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……. but then I noticed that they both had a signature, and curiosity getting the better of me, I did a Google search expecting nothing significant to come back …………

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However, I found an artist called Valerie Pfeiffer, Australian born, but now, I believe, living in Canada, famous for her cute bird pictures…….. 

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…….. of which many have, in turn, been used to create beautiful cross stitch kits.

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   Valerie is also known for her paintings of flowers ……

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…….. it was when I compared the signatures that I thought they looked very similar, however that’s as far as I have managed to get, I can’t find anything else about the artist.  To be honest I think the painting on the glasses seems crude when compared to the artists paintings, however the hand painted signature is still intriguing.