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Offline jl smout

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Paperweight ID help needed.
« on: May 24, 2013, 03:30:13 PM »
Hello, all, new member here. I have these two paperweights, both of which I have picked up cheaply in charity shops: the green one about two years ago, and the blue one last month. They are both signed, but I can't read the signatures and identify them.

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http://i662.photobucket.com/albums/uu348/HMSAjax/mercer011_zps5e41a9bf.jpg

http://i662.photobucket.com/albums/uu348/HMSAjax/mercer012_zpsf50cd3a3.jpg
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Re: Paperweight ID help needed.
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2013, 10:28:57 PM »
Hi, welcome to the Board.

Please start a new thread for one of those paperweights and I (or another mnoderator) will tidy this one up.

Having two items in one thread can get get confusing especially if there are many comments made.
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« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2013, 03:23:18 PM »
Done. Thanks for the reply.
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Re: Paperweight ID help needed.
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2013, 06:16:57 PM »
Hi.  Just wondering if the signature on the green one is Cowdy?  Hard to tell from the picture.  I'm away. From home so unable to compare with my own Cowdy weights.

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Re: Paperweight ID help needed.
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2013, 10:01:07 PM »
Seconded: Harry Cowdy
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Re: Paperweight ID help needed.
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2013, 10:46:13 AM »
Thank you everyone for your help. So it's a Cowdy. Thanks.
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Re: Paperweight ID help needed.
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2013, 04:07:28 PM »
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Hi. 

I have never heard of Harry Cowdy as a glass maker (my failing, I am sure...). I found the Cowdy Gallery website but it seems to be unrelated to glass. Can anyone help enlighten me?

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« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2013, 04:37:54 PM »
Pauline Solven's husband. Looks like the gallery is no longer in existence
http://www.caa.org.uk/exhibitions/archive/2008/glasshouse/pauline-solven/
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« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2013, 04:46:46 PM »
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Thanks Christine.  Do I gather from the link that Harry Cowdy was a BBC employee, and that Pauline is the glass maker? So is the Cowdy signature hers?

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« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2013, 07:05:08 PM »
Cannot publish it here (copied from an ebay auction some time ago), but I have an image of the base of a pw with this signature plus a transparent plastic label saying "Cowdy - Gloucestershire - Handmade in England".
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