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Offline mhgcgolfclub

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Arculus Paperweight or other Old English
« on: October 25, 2013, 04:38:44 PM »
A low domed Old English Paperweight, my first thought was Arculus .

Measures very approx 3.6" in diameter and 1.7" in height.

Large polished pontil.

Thanks for any help.

Roy

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Re: Arculus Paperweight or other Old English
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2013, 04:40:49 PM »
2 more pics

Roy

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Re: Arculus Paperweight or other Old English
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2013, 09:16:33 PM »
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Hi Roy.

The canes look more like Richardson (or unknown) than Walsh Walsh / Arculus, but I  am not 100% sure, as some are rather unusual.  I don't think that Richardson made any low domed paperweights - but they did make a lot of inkwells that become fairly low domed paperweights after restoration following damage...and the concave polished base is unusual for Old English. So my feeling is that it is a repolished Richardson inkwell.

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Re: Arculus Paperweight or other Old English
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2013, 04:20:26 AM »
Hi Alan

Thank you for your reply. I would have never thought of it as possibly being a restored inkwell when I bought it. If you are correct and it is a restored inkwell are they still collectible or are people put of from buying such items.

I did notice this morning when using a UV light that there is only a very slight green glow but the one single cane with the green centre in the 4th picture is uranium and glows very brightly , I will try and add a picture of that later.

Thanks again  Alan for your help

Roy

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Re: Arculus Paperweight or other Old English
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2013, 08:56:54 PM »
A couple of pictures of the uranium cane.

Roy

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