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Author Topic: Only 50 Royal Brierley Paperweights all over the world???  (Read 6774 times)

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Offline keith

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Re: Only 50 Royal Brierley Paperweights all over the world???
« Reply #10 on: November 01, 2012, 05:44:58 PM »
Sorry, ::) ::) ;D ;D

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Re: Only 50 Royal Brierley Paperweights all over the world???
« Reply #11 on: March 28, 2018, 01:54:50 PM »
I assume you are all talking about properly marked millefiori weights by RB.  If not I have one of 50 - and I can't imagine that can be correct.

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Re: Only 50 Royal Brierley Paperweights all over the world???
« Reply #12 on: March 28, 2018, 05:14:21 PM »
Hello Ross, these posts were about the 'Murano' style weights they produced, your right in regards to the others, there are lots !, picture of the 'murano' style below....

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Re: Only 50 Royal Brierley Paperweights all over the world???
« Reply #13 on: March 28, 2018, 07:05:04 PM »
....and the usual stuff... ;D

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Re: Only 50 Royal Brierley Paperweights all over the world???
« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2018, 09:39:59 PM »
Funnily enough, I picked up this one recently, thinking it may be Scottish and it has very similar canes to your millefiori canes Keith... Brierley imported them from Murano didn't they? This may be an Italian weight, but it has a fire polished pontil rod mark not a flat polished base, which I would more expect from a Murano weight...

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Re: Only 50 Royal Brierley Paperweights all over the world???
« Reply #15 on: March 28, 2018, 10:40:31 PM »
My understanding of the info in Bob Hall's book (see Reply #3) was that Royal Brierley had trouble with the compatibility of the Murano canes worked in their own glass mix ... meaning that Royal Brierley made the weights with millefiori canes sourced from Murano.
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Re: Only 50 Royal Brierley Paperweights all over the world???
« Reply #16 on: March 28, 2018, 11:05:41 PM »
Mine has what looks like a polished pontil mark and is etched Royal Brierley, the canes are similar to your pwt Robert.

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