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Title: Any help with this paper weight please ?
Post by: malcmat on July 09, 2012, 11:44:51 AM
Hi, 2.25 inches tall and 2.25 inches dia with a flat polished base. Its hard to describe other than it has a portion that looks like a clam shell body in white and a amber spiral from the base leading to the side. It has a dozen small bubble inclusions with a thread of blue and amber dropping off the bubbles.
Any help with I/D would be much appreciated.
Malc
Title: Re: Any help with this paper weight please ?
Post by: Gary on July 09, 2012, 11:56:20 AM
It looks very like an Isle of Wight paperweight I had identified on the board.
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,47447.0.html
Gary
Title: Re: Any help with this paper weight please ?
Post by: malcmat on July 10, 2012, 06:10:43 PM
Thanks Gary for pointing me in the right direction, do you know when the isle of wight P/Ws went from the impressed pontil mark and started to finish them flat and polished on the base.
Many thanks
Malc
Title: Re: Any help with this paper weight please ?
Post by: chopin-liszt on July 10, 2012, 06:26:57 PM
I don't think the pwts had flame pontil marks. Early ones had pedestals.
Title: Re: Any help with this paper weight please ?
Post by: Lustrousstone on July 10, 2012, 07:10:41 PM
Yes they do. Mine has and it's a similar colour scheme to this
http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=1091
http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=1090
Title: Re: Any help with this paper weight please ?
Post by: chopin-liszt on July 11, 2012, 12:13:49 PM
 :-[  sorry!
Title: Re: Any help with this paper weight please ?
Post by: Lustrousstone on July 11, 2012, 02:24:43 PM
 :-*