Topic: Okay, what did I just buy?

[LesBeatiques]

I saw some strong similarities to a weight attributed to St. Mande in Robert Hall's "World Paperweights" bottom left pg. 61. If not the same maker as Resco's deffinatly the same maker as the above referenced Selman's.

[RescoCCC]

St Mande did use rose canes similar to Clichy. HMM...

[tropdevin]

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Hi.  Regarding rose canes, you can add Grenelle, and unknown French factories, and some Bohemian and Silesian ones too....I have come to the conclusion that the presence of a rose cane tells you one thing: the paperweight contains a rose cane!  Sometimes the rose cane design points towards a particular source, but often not.  Peter von Brackel's second book has a lot of rose cane images.

Alan

[tropdevin]

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Hi Resco

I am currently well advanced with an article on the paperweights with star canes that I mentioned earlier in this thread.  I wanted to find the Selman auction paperweight you referred to, but the link no longer works because Selman has restructured their site.  Do you recall roughly when the auction was?  Also, do you by any chance have a high resolution image of your paperweight that I might study?

Alan

[RescoCCC]

It's auction 32, Spring 2004, lot number 20. The only images I currently have are the ones I posted in this thread. I'll shoot a big one for you.

[tropdevin]

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Hi Resco

Many thanks. Sadly, they now start at Auction 33 with their online archive - but you can get 32 if you try hard!

Alan

[RescoCCC]

http://www.selman.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/auction2003/auc32/index.html

[RescoCCC]

I just eMailed you a larger image of the weight.

[RescoCCC]

PS: And in case you need it in the future, here's a link to their past auctions from 1996 to 2011.

http://selman.com/pwauction/cat_past.html

[tropdevin]

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Hi Resco.  Many thanks for the image.  I have emailed you with more details of why I wanted to see the canes close-up.  More information about these paperweights (which form a diverse class) and their probable origin will appear in a PCA Bulletin article in due course.

Alan