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Offline Nick77

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Defeated by Id's 1
« on: February 04, 2013, 03:03:04 PM »
Sorry defeated again, spent 6 hours yesterday going through all my books and the web trying to ID 2 paperweights.
My gut instinct with this one is 19th Century French but I cannot find a single cane match and that profile?
Otherwise Bohemian/Silesian?
Not sure if this would be classed as a scrambled weight, a base of sodden snow with glass frits around the edge and an assortment of rather nice canes to the centre.

70mm diameter 45mm high, and photo is not clear but base is concave.

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Nick

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Re: Defeated by Id's 1
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2013, 03:03:30 PM »
One more pic

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Re: Defeated by Id's 1
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2013, 03:47:36 PM »
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Hi Nick.  When I saw this up for sale I wondered who made it, and came to a similar conclusion - probably 19thC French, but no more than probably.

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Re: Defeated by Id's 1
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2013, 03:58:43 PM »
Hi Alan,

It's not just me then, went to the auction and viewed it, thought with that amount of canes I'm sure to be able to find a match for at least some of them but no luck, spent hours trying. It really is a lovely piece.


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Nick

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Re: Defeated by Id's 1
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2013, 04:22:04 PM »
well as you know I know nothing about paperweights  ;D
but, is the base very slightly concave and does it have a fine ground ring on the outer edge of the base?
It's just that the shape (flat squarish profile) is very similar to my 19thc Bohemian one and the base looked similar....
I should probably just put my head back below the parapet now  ;D
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Re: Defeated by Id's 1
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2013, 04:26:49 PM »

but, is the base very slightly concave and does it have a fine ground ring on the outer edge of the base?
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Yes and yes, but that's a feature of antique French weights too.

The profile did make me think maybe Bohemian but I don't know that I've seen one with such fine canes.

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Re: Defeated by Id's 1
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2013, 04:42:28 PM »
A couple of close ups of canes


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Re: Defeated by Id's 1
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2013, 07:39:36 PM »
hi nick
not sure if this helps but i had a st monde with canes very similar to the canes on this weight
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Re: Defeated by Id's 1
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2013, 08:07:52 PM »
Hi Joe
I assume you mean St Mande, do you have any photos?

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Re: Defeated by Id's 1
« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2013, 08:14:19 PM »

 hi nick
yes sorry i did mean st mande and i will see if i still have some stored on phone and get back to you
joe

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