Topic: And the maker is...?

[tropdevin]

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The garland canes on this weight look like Caithness - but is it a Caithness weight?  Or Edinburgh Crystal, or Willie Manson, or...? Any views?

Alan

[Wuff]

Well - I would exclude Edinburgh Crystal: didn't do any millefiori weights, as far as I know, just commissioned them e.g. from Caithness (or later from Murano).

Caithness did several such millefiori miniatures, including a couple of bells, or a Christmas Lantern amongst others - why not a Christmas tree? Most were facetted - but if a design didn't make it into production (and this one looks a bit crude) it may well have ended up unfacetted and marked second (CIIG) in the factory shop.

[alexander]

Eh..there is a second picture on the listing showing a CIIG mark.
Maybe it was added after the post.

The lampwork feels like W. Manson to me.

[tropdevin]

Hi

I don't recall the second image being there when I made the post; I would not have asked the question if I had seen CIIG! But maybe I was not attending closely.

Alan

[ALLAN]

Hi All,
       yes we did make "Mini Christmas tree" weights and that is DEFINITELY a second if not a Third, . It was around the time of all the other Christmas mini designs as I remember.I don't think we sold many of them as I do not remember it being a particularly popular design.
                                        Allan

[Wuff]

With Allan confirming the existence of a "Miniature Christmas Tree" I checked my image files again, the ones not yet online on Scotlandsglass, and found it: first issued in 1987. The "proper" ones are indeed facetted.