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Title: paperweight teaser
Post by: RAY on June 11, 2005, 12:07:10 PM
this is my latest piece, i know who made it, it measures 3" across and 2.75" high, can anyone else identify the maker

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Title: paperweight teaser
Post by: Frank on June 11, 2005, 12:14:18 PM
Has to be titled "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
Title: paperweight teaser
Post by: RAY on June 11, 2005, 12:18:24 PM
nice saying Frank, the eye is of a peacock
Title: paperweight teaser
Post by: Max on June 11, 2005, 01:28:58 PM
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Ray said: nice saying Frank, the eye is of a peacock


I bet the peacock didn't like that!
Title: paperweight teaser
Post by: Connie on June 11, 2005, 03:05:52 PM
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It measures 3" across and 2.75" high


It must be one heck of a big peacock.  Are you sure it isn't a whale?  (http://www.glassmavenhaven.com/forum/images/smilies/pound.gif)
Title: paperweight teaser
Post by: Frank on June 11, 2005, 03:09:08 PM
:idea: Dinosaurus Peacockus  :twisted:
Title: paperweight teaser
Post by: RAY on June 11, 2005, 03:28:03 PM
:lol: at all you lot, ok the weight is called the peacocks eye and made 18yrs ago
Title: paperweight teaser
Post by: KevinH on June 11, 2005, 07:26:18 PM
Couldn't be so obvious as Glass Eye Studio ...  could it?

And in the range of glass Button makers around the world, "Peacok Eye" is a well-known pattern but as I know almost nothing about Button makers, I can't comment on whether any of them made buttons for VERY large people's clothing!

I can't tell whether the "foil" inclusions are what, in modern terms, is called 'Dichroic Glass' (see discussion in the main Glass board). But the overall decorative effect looks like something that American "glass artists" would produce.

But as you can tell, I'm waffling, 'cause I don't know the answer  :roll:
Title: paperweight teaser
Post by: RAY on June 11, 2005, 08:55:24 PM
it's a one off experimental piece never to be made again, it's English and the base of the eye is made up of very fine aventurine, the weight is fully signed

Kev did you get my last email?
Title: paperweight teaser
Post by: RAY on June 12, 2005, 03:41:59 PM
makers initials JD
Title: paperweight teaser
Post by: Leni on June 12, 2005, 04:14:30 PM
Quote from: "RAY"
makers initials JD

 :shock: John Ditchfield?  :?

Leni
Title: paperweight teaser
Post by: RAY on June 12, 2005, 06:32:20 PM
Leni wins a penny chew, i emailed John about the weight and he said , he remembers making the weight 18yrs ago as a one off experimental piece  and he never made anymore and he called it the peacocks eye

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Title: paperweight teaser
Post by: Leni on June 12, 2005, 07:53:57 PM
Quote from: "RAY"
Leni wins a penny chew,

Ner ner!  :lol:

Gimme my chew!   :P

Leni
Title: paperweight teaser
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 13, 2005, 09:28:37 AM
:lol: It's MARGINALLY more attractive than my Caithness eye, which still comes second to Ivo's pink and yellow urine bottle! :twisted: There's something creepy about disembodied eyes. (Unless they're my grandfather's dried whale eye, which I'm still very fond of).
Title: paperweight teaser
Post by: Anonymous on June 13, 2005, 10:14:21 AM
hey you lot you're just looking at it from the wrong perspective

respect :evil:  :roll:  :wink:

Cyclops