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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: tropdevin on August 12, 2012, 09:58:27 PM
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I know that many things have a hard lfe, but this Clichy (http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-53481-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&pub=5574631383&toolid=10001&campid=5336261829&customid=&icep_item=280941110527&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229508&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg) has suffered worse than most. Heavily repolished, then the foot smashed....
And someone still thinks it is worth a lot of money....
Alan
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i wonder if that was the start of a mushroom weight with out the casing
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I don't think it was an unfinished piece: I think it was a finished paperweight that was badly damaged at least once before. Look at the base view: the red/white staves are all polished off flat, not drawn in to the foot, as at manufacture. Someone has repaired a damaged base by polishing it flat and adding a new foot. At that time they probably reduced the dome to the shape it is now. And then it has been broken again...
I suspect it may turn up again with a new foot, or reduced to a modest sized paperweight.
Alan