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Offline Brigitte

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Help Info Old Paperweight
« on: May 02, 2012, 12:23:28 PM »
Hello
Can somebody help me with the Identification
of this paperweight? I inherited it from my mother.
Does somebody know if this is an old paperweight?
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Re: Help Info Old Paperweight
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2012, 12:26:06 PM »
Hello Brigitte,looks Chinese to me,have one similar somewhere ;D ;D

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Re: Help Info Old Paperweight
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2012, 03:51:01 PM »
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Correct - it is definitely Chinese.  As for age, I would think the second half of the 20th C.

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