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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: MHJ02 on March 17, 2009, 07:34:54 PM
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I bought this paperweight at auction, but as I live in France relied on photos. There is no signature cane, but the canes look like Paul's work, the glass is tinted and the ground blue.
Thank you.
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Looks like Paul, but I am no authority on his. I had to write, though, as one of my most dreaded photos are those that show a paperweight up-ended onto what appears to be a hard (and therefore scratch producing) surface. Best to set it on a piece of soft fabric when taking pix of the bottom.
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I really like these 'close-packed' concentric paperweights. A design which Paul seems to have used from the 1930's onwards. Kevin Holt calls them central clusters and has a nice selection to compare to yours. You MUST check his website - its great!! Frank has a very nice selection of the Ysart catalogue pages too.
Definitely Pauls work - colouration seems to suggest closer to 1970's than the 1930's.
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I think I saw this via the-saleroom website. Did you buy this from Goldings??
Should have bid!!!!
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Thank you for your responses. I was pretty sure this was a PY weight. I did buy it at auction - Gerrards Auction House - I was surprised at the price, much less than I'd anticipated.
Regards
Mary
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spill the beans!!!
how much of a bargain??
lol
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£170
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I agree that this weight is more likely to be 1970s than 1930s. But it might also be 1960s!
Paul Ysart weights from the 1930s normally only had a flat polished base if there was no colour ground and the design would have allowed the pontil mark to show through. But there are some examples which go against that - such as his early magnum "Fountain" and Double- or Triple-Harelquin weights.
The only way I know to say for sure (as far as we can be sure, that is) is to check the weight under both long and shortwave UV.