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Offline Wuff

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Bubble paperweight with frit ground: ID please
« on: September 25, 2009, 09:33:36 AM »
What do the experts out there make of this weight (provenance, age)?
I am asking on behalf of another collector, and have not seen the paperweight myself - only the images. I have been told that the black marks over the central bubble are inclusions in the glass, not damage.
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Re: Bubble paperweight with frit ground: ID please
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2009, 12:11:35 PM »
Hi Wuff

I suspect it is 'Bohemian', and around 100 years old. I had the good fortune to see Peter von Brackel's collection of several hundred Bohemian weights recently, and there were certainly quite of few of this style.  That said, I know similar weights were made in the Alsace region and Belgium as well.

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