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Offline bat20

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Re: victorian scramble paperweight ????
« Reply #20 on: August 27, 2015, 06:28:23 AM »
Great thread and thanks to all the contributors,I know wear can be misleading and if it's already been mentioned sorry for bringing it up,but how much is there on the base.

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Re: victorian scramble paperweight ????
« Reply #21 on: August 27, 2015, 03:23:04 PM »
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Hi.  If you mean my piece, it has noticeable wear - image below.  That said, I don't think wear tells you much about a piece really: give a new paperweight to a child to play with and it is likely to end up looking worn, whereas get an old piece restored and it might look brand new!

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Re: victorian scramble paperweight ????
« Reply #22 on: August 27, 2015, 03:47:24 PM »
Thanks Alan interesting to see what to look for underneath ,although I did mean the original weight starting the thread.

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Re: victorian scramble paperweight ????
« Reply #23 on: August 29, 2015, 04:29:10 PM »
Thank you John, Kevin and Allan for taking the time to investigate these Venetian weights of uncertain age!
Still no final conclusion (the info on paperweight making on Murano between end of 19th century and WW2 seems really scarce), but at least some hints that paperweights in a similar style to the earlier Bigaglia weights (maybe using brighter canes) may have been made during that period.

My questions were a little bit selfish ;)
As I a am still thinking the features in >> this mystery paperweight I asked about some time ago might hint to that production period as well.
But it is very different in other respects...

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Re: victorian scramble paperweight ????
« Reply #24 on: August 29, 2015, 08:15:14 PM »
Ah! That one that we all passed on! I have bumped it with a query.
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Re: victorian scramble paperweight ????
« Reply #25 on: August 26, 2017, 11:29:19 AM »
Hi,I think posting on this interesting thread is possibly apt for this weight I found recently.The glass is a tad grey and the flat base has a lot of wear with slightly deeper scratches showing wear aswell.The base is not a perfectly circular,it's about 2.5" wd and is very rich and colourful almost festive.Any thoughts on this one gratefully accepted.I'm trying a new method of putting up images so I hope it works!

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Re: victorian scramble paperweight ????
« Reply #26 on: August 26, 2017, 11:30:06 AM »
Another.

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Re: victorian scramble paperweight ????
« Reply #27 on: August 26, 2017, 11:30:44 AM »
And the last.

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Re: victorian scramble paperweight ????
« Reply #28 on: August 26, 2017, 11:32:27 AM »
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Hi.  It is a Murano scramble, that might well be Victorian.  I think this style was made in the late 19th - early 20th century.

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Re: victorian scramble paperweight ????
« Reply #29 on: August 26, 2017, 11:54:07 AM »
Blimey that was quick!,thanks Alan I was hoping it was from about that era,I should add you can feel the tooling marks when you run your finger over the crown and there is one bit of pink latticio with a fine darker pink/ red edge.

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