Topic: Are These Murano or Chinese?

[BJB]

As most of you know, what I know about paperweights could be written on a pin head with room to spare  :oops: so I usually avoid them like the plague, but......

I saw these two yesterday and as they were inexpensive I decided to see if I had improved on my last buys.

The first one is strange as it has a scrambled base and canes on the top with  a flat polished base

http://i3.tinypic.com/w8t8ap.jpg

http://i3.tinypic.com/w8taua.jpg

http://i3.tinypic.com/w8tb2r.jpg


The second one is very different, and is marked to the base, but I can't really see what it says, maybe WP 94?

http://i3.tinypic.com/w8tbfr.jpg  

http://i3.tinypic.com/w8tbnt.jpg  

Anyone got any ideas,

Barbara

[Simone]

Hi Barbara, the first one is Murano, and the second one isn't easy to identify.

Could you take some more pictures looking directly at the dome please? If you balance the camera on a few books, you should get a clear photo, and even better, if you have a little flower facility on the camera, if you turn it on, it does closeups.

Thanks.

[BJB]

Here is the best I could get, it looks like an exploding volcano!

http://i3.tinypic.com/wb9ycj.jpg

At least its dry if very cloudy today

Barbara