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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: Wuff on March 23, 2007, 07:52:33 PM

Title: Paperweights by Schneider Glass (France)
Post by: Wuff on March 23, 2007, 07:52:33 PM
http://cgi.ebay.ch/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250096406653 (http://cgi.ebay.ch/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250096406653) shows a paperweight signed "Schneider".

In the article on Schneider Glass (http://www.glassencyclopedia.com/Schneiderglass.html), however, no paperweights are mentioned.

Did this Schneider Glass in France also make paperweights - or are the paperweights from a different studio (with Schneider being a very common name in German speaking areas)?
Title: Re: Paperweights by Schneider Glass (France)
Post by: Max on March 23, 2007, 08:56:05 PM
Wuff, there might be some information for you here:

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,5502.msg46098.html#msg46098

...you'll need to take a deep breath first...it's a VERY long one!  :o




Title: Re: Paperweights by Schneider Glass (France)
Post by: Frank on March 23, 2007, 09:25:16 PM
Or just go straight to this post in the thread if you want to see my one.

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,5502.msg54958.html#msg54958

It is available.
Title: Re: Paperweights by Schneider Glass (France)
Post by: m1asmithw8s on March 29, 2007, 03:07:45 PM
It's a Murano weight.
I have several Muranos with faux 'Schneider' acid etched signatures.
The signatures are extremely faint too.
Title: Re: Paperweights by Schneider Glass (France)
Post by: Frank on March 29, 2007, 04:47:43 PM
Genuine signatures are faint too, helps when it comes with the label. Also all of the designs in the Schneider catalogue are bubble abstracts.

Title: Re: Paperweights by Schneider Glass (France)
Post by: KevinH on March 29, 2007, 10:21:57 PM
I wonder if Mark was referring to the birds weight rather than the bubbled one.

The bubbled ones were made by Cristallerie Schneider, the post war company set up by Charles Schneider. These items were referred to as "crystal balls" not paperweights. And it has been suggested that Cristallerie Schneider was "the first, even before Daum, to launch the vogue for crystal balls". Info from the book, Schneider by Edith Mannoni.
Title: Re: Paperweights by Schneider Glass (France)
Post by: Frank on March 30, 2007, 09:40:08 AM
I presume that he was. I was wondering if the bird was a transfer print but that involved cooling and reheating the blank?

Bit of a Schneider catalogue
(http://www.debook.com/forum/sp13.jpg)
Title: Re: Paperweights by Schneider Glass (France)
Post by: m1asmithw8s on April 17, 2007, 04:12:55 PM
Yes, I was referring to the  Birds  weight and when I say that faux Schneider signatures are faint when found on Murano weights, I mean that they are extreeeeeeeeeeemely faaaaaaaaint  :)