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Offline woodie

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paperweight identification
« on: July 05, 2009, 01:24:26 PM »
please could anyone help with the identification of these paperweights, thank you

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Offline Lustrousstone

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Re: paperweight identification
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2009, 04:40:54 PM »
Hi Welcome to the GMB.

If the bases are matte, they're modern Chinese. Base pictures are a great help in paperweight (and other glass) ID

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Re: paperweight identification
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2009, 05:57:41 PM »
Definitely modern Chinese.
I collect Scottish and Italian paperweights and anything else that strikes my fancy.

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Re: paperweight identification
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2009, 06:12:24 PM »
Hi woodie

They are all modern Chinese. Were they a job lot somewhere?

Alan.
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Offline woodie

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Re: paperweight identification
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2009, 07:24:00 PM »
I was afer one piece of whitefriars and they came with it... there is a nice mdind one as well but I know what that is.. Obviously they bunged in a load of chinese ones just to boost the numbers.  ::)

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