No-one likes general adverts, and ours hadn't been updated for ages, so we're having a clear-out and a change round to make the new ones useful to you. These new adverts bring in a small amount to help pay for the board and keep it free for you to use, so please do use them whenever you can, Let our links help you find great books on glass or a new piece for your collection. Thank you for supporting the Board.

Author Topic: Paperweight - or something else?  (Read 1756 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Wuff

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 1037
    • Scotland's Glass
Paperweight - or something else?
« on: February 03, 2016, 01:13:42 PM »
What is this - just an unusually shaped paperweight - or is it meant to serve another purpose?

Height 11.5 cm / diameter stand 9 cm / diameter knob 6 cm / weight 695 g.
Wolf Seelentag, St.Gallen
Interested in any aspect of Scottish glass? Have a look at Scotland's Glass.

Support the Glass Message Board by finding a book via book-seek.com


Offline chopin-liszt

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 14462
    • Scotland, Europe.
Re: Paperweight - or something else?
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2016, 01:39:08 PM »
 ;D
It looks like a meat tenderiser, but I'm sure it would hold paper down very effectively too.
Cheers, Sue M. (she/her)

‘For every problem there is a solution: neat, plausible and wrong’. H.L.Mencken

Support the Glass Message Board by finding glass through glass-seek.com


Offline Wuff

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 1037
    • Scotland's Glass
Re: Paperweight - or something else?
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2016, 04:29:52 PM »
Thank you for the suggestion, Sue ... I guess the shape could have been copied, but would you use glass to make such an item? Also, the meat tenderisers I'm familiar with, have a "spiky" surface (base) - my item is polished flat, and shows no sign of wear at all (so it at least would never have been used).

I guess the next question cannot be answered before more is known about the purpose: where / by whom was it made?
Wolf Seelentag, St.Gallen
Interested in any aspect of Scottish glass? Have a look at Scotland's Glass.

Support the Glass Message Board by finding a book via book-seek.com


Offline chopin-liszt

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 14462
    • Scotland, Europe.
Re: Paperweight - or something else?
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2016, 04:44:00 PM »
I wouldn't really like to use glass on meat. I don't want to eat broken glass. :-X

My guts think there is a hint of Beranek about it.  :)
Cheers, Sue M. (she/her)

‘For every problem there is a solution: neat, plausible and wrong’. H.L.Mencken

Support the Glass Message Board by finding glass through glass-seek.com


Offline LesBeatiques

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 165
    • Paperweights
    • U.S.
    • The Paperweight Collection
Re: Paperweight - or something else?
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2016, 04:54:53 PM »
It looks like a coffee tamper used to make espresso. However the recommend force needed for a proper tamp is 30lbs...Not sure I would want to be using glass when applying this much pressure.

Support the Glass Message Board by finding a book via book-seek.com


Offline Wuff

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 1037
    • Scotland's Glass
Re: Paperweight - or something else?
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2016, 05:08:48 PM »
My guts think there is a hint of Beranek about it.  :)
Beranek at least has a fish in their catalogue with a yellow surface decoration of similar type and (as far as it can be told from images) colour, designed by Jan Exnar.
Wolf Seelentag, St.Gallen
Interested in any aspect of Scottish glass? Have a look at Scotland's Glass.

Support the Glass Message Board by finding glass through glass-seek.com


Offline chopin-liszt

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 14462
    • Scotland, Europe.
Re: Paperweight - or something else?
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2016, 05:38:33 PM »
I gave my brother an Skrodlovice Oliva pwt, which was a clear cube of glass containing a round orange sphere, with a spiral trail of black around it, and just one corner of the cube missing to expose that part of the sphere.
(Commercial images here;
http://www.zfolio.com/Ladislav-Oliva/Art-Glass-Paperweights-products

That might be another direction to look?

But Beranek do have form for bright primary colours with dark spirals.
Cheers, Sue M. (she/her)

‘For every problem there is a solution: neat, plausible and wrong’. H.L.Mencken

Support the Glass Message Board by finding a book via book-seek.com


Offline Anne E.B.

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 2099
    • U.K.
Re: Paperweight - or something else?
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2016, 08:09:13 PM »
It would make a good darning mushroom, except I don't think people darn things anymore as they are more likely to throw things away instead.
Anne E.B

Support the Glass Message Board by finding glass through glass-seek.com


Offline chopin-liszt

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 14462
    • Scotland, Europe.
Re: Paperweight - or something else?
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2016, 06:46:37 PM »
 :)
Amongst the proliferation of charity shops, betting shops, pawn-brokers and loan sharks, clothing repair and alteration shops seem to be the only kinds of shops that are surviving on high streets at the moment.

People are getting clothes repaired again.
Cheers, Sue M. (she/her)

‘For every problem there is a solution: neat, plausible and wrong’. H.L.Mencken

Support the Glass Message Board by finding a book via book-seek.com


Offline essi

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 542
    • all eras of w/friars and scand
    • england
Re: Paperweight - or something else?
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2016, 07:41:01 PM »
May be way of the mark, look up glass smoothers. Wuff's example seems to be a modern version of these items. (maybe).
Tim

Support the Glass Message Board by finding glass through glass-seek.com


 

SMF spam blocked by CleanTalk
Visit the Glass Encyclopedia
link to glass encyclopedia
Visit the Online Glass Museum
link to glass museum


This website is provided by Angela Bowey, PO Box 113, Paihia 0247, New Zealand