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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: kap320 on May 11, 2012, 02:49:59 PM

Title: ID and VALUE ??
Post by: kap320 on May 11, 2012, 02:49:59 PM
can anyone help with the ID and possible valuation with this thrift store find? It has a K/B label on its base but I'm assuming thats a import label. Looks like a pear or onion or flower bud ??????--Maybe Murano??

Thanks for all the help--My pics were too big--finally got it fixed--Ken
Title: Re: ID and VALUE ??
Post by: chopin-liszt on May 11, 2012, 05:22:20 PM
 ;D
It looks like a fig or a bulb of garlic!

An image of the label and of the base would be helpful, if you would be so kind?
As to valuation - that's not something we tend to deal with here.
Valuations are subjective, they depend on where, when, why, how, and who is there in whatever sort of sale it is.
Title: Re: ID and VALUE ??
Post by: langhaugh on May 12, 2012, 01:08:33 AM
The label may be a US import label, something like the Kucheroff Brothers. I can't quite remember the correct name and nor can I locate an example of the label. The company imported a variety of Murano factories' glass, some more tourist glass and some good quality. I wouldn't say that this was at the high end, but I'm no paperweight expert.

I'd have to see the label to say for certain. It should be a quartered shield with the K in the upper left quadrant and the B in the lower right.

David
Title: Re: ID and VALUE ??
Post by: kap320 on May 12, 2012, 01:17:05 AM
thats what it looks like exactly David. Thanks---I'll go with Murano----Ken
Title: Re: ID and VALUE ??
Post by: TxSilver on May 17, 2012, 01:05:35 AM
KB is the Koscherak Brothers Import Co. of New York. The pw is Fratelli Toso for KB. It is probably from the late 1960-early 1970s.
Title: Re: ID and VALUE ??
Post by: kap320 on May 17, 2012, 01:31:23 PM
thank you--my thrift store find of $6 gets better and better----Ken