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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: Pat on July 30, 2006, 01:55:02 PM

Title: Paperweight ID help please
Post by: Pat on July 30, 2006, 01:55:02 PM

I got this one because I like it and it sits well with my Okra ones. I believe it to be a second because it has a shallow ragged crack on the base. I suppose it could be Okra but some of my collection has been brough directly from Richard at the studio and the rest is all signed. I don't actually know if he sells seconds. Also the finish is not quite the same and doses not feel the same. I took one pic which is a bit blurred to show the way it irridesces purple in the daylight.

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-2693

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-2692

Title: Paperweight ID help please
Post by: Catisfaction on August 02, 2006, 02:37:27 AM

The coloring and finish is very similar to a Robert Held weight I once had. Might be worth a look.

Title: Paperweight ID help please
Post by: Pat on August 02, 2006, 08:13:36 AM

Thanks for the possible lead. I have emailed Robert Held with a photo so we'll wait and see.

Title: Paperweight ID help please
Post by: josordoni on August 02, 2006, 08:45:38 AM

Here is an Orient and Flume one, similar but not quite... but it might have been an older one in a slightly different style?

http://www.orientandflume.com/detail.cfm?id=2164&CurrentPage=1&cat=11

Title: Paperweight ID help please
Post by: Pat on August 03, 2006, 08:29:54 AM

Whoopee! I got this reply from Robert Held in Canada:

Hi Pat,
Yes this is a Robert Held Art Glass paperweight from our abstract
collection.
Cheers, Laura Kearnes

Thank you cat.

Title: Paperweight ID help please
Post by: josordoni on August 03, 2006, 11:34:05 AM

Oh how exciting, I don't know much at all about Canadian weights - is this a good name?

Title: Paperweight ID help please
Post by: Pat on August 03, 2006, 11:42:01 AM

I don't really know but the web site is nice and the stuff is not cheap.

Title: Paperweight ID help please
Post by: aa on August 03, 2006, 01:03:07 PM

Quote from: "josordoni"

Oh how exciting, I don't know much at all about Canadian weights - is this a good name?

one of the best.

Title: Paperweight ID help please
Post by: josordoni on August 03, 2006, 01:59:53 PM

Thanks Adam! I'll have a good look at the site, in case I come across any!

Title: Paperweight ID help please
Post by: Frank on August 03, 2006, 03:18:30 PM

Where is the site?

Title: Paperweight ID help please
Post by: josordoni on August 03, 2006, 03:29:32 PM

Oh, that's a point. I didn't look properly, and thought Pat had given the link.

Pat, can you give me a link to the Canadian site?

thanks!

Title: Paperweight ID help please
Post by: Pat on August 03, 2006, 03:30:12 PM

Yes it's  www.robertheld.com

Title: Paperweight ID help please
Post by: josordoni on August 03, 2006, 04:00:07 PM

These look like lovely quality.  I can't believe how little they are going for on ebay, unless someone asks a reasonable price as a BIN, you just can't let the market decide for paperweights at the moment. It is so depressing.... :cry: