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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: saorsa on October 25, 2007, 06:02:14 PM

Title: scottish glass paperweight ? id if possible please
Post by: saorsa on October 25, 2007, 06:02:14 PM

picked this up from Perth Scotland today

anyone id  it from the canes please

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-8580
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-8581
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-8584
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-8582
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-8583

Thanks Greg

Title: Re: scottish glass paperweight ? id if possible please
Post by: glasstrufflehunter on October 25, 2007, 06:43:43 PM

Definitely not Scottish. it looks Italian to me. The Italians are very fond of making aventurine cushions like that. That blue band is a trifle unusual. Possibly Fratelli Toso.

Title: Re: scottish glass paperweight ? id if possible please
Post by: saorsa on October 25, 2007, 06:55:30 PM

Thanks Glasstrufflehunter  for that , but it is not aventurine on the base but a mottled orange
Greg

Title: Re: scottish glass paperweight ? id if possible please
Post by: glasstrufflehunter on October 25, 2007, 07:28:28 PM

The way it photographed it looked like aventurine.  :P I have an old Fratelli Toso with an 'orangey' looking base which is aventurine that did not quite crystallize so it looks sparkly. Instead it looks kinda orangey and when the light passes through it it has a bit of a greenish cast.

I still think it's Italian because of the chunky canes. Looks like older Fratelli Toso