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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: Cazza on November 21, 2013, 02:36:58 PM
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Hi this is a CIIG marked weight, which makes it a second, no other marks on it. can anyone tell me the name of it please. It has what looks like a crab in the bottom.
http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/0/5/4/1/2/4/webimg/718235614_o.jpg (http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/0/5/4/1/2/4/webimg/718235614_o.jpg)
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Looks like sea crab. 1974/5. Colin Terris. The engraving is an addition to the pattern as it is a second. The original design doesn't have it.
Check it out on Scotlands' Glass website
Regards
JAK
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Hi!
I'm intrigued by the engraving. I have a CIIG weight (Moonflower) that has been engraved in exactly the same way. Was this a way of marking a second (in addition to the rather more subtle CIIG!), or were these weights being used as 'practice' for cutters? I wondered if segmenting the weight in this fashion might be part of the process of faceting?
Graham
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It was the engraving that threw me. Very odd
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Yes, it seems an awful lot of effort unless there is some good reason for it. I do wonder if it is a 'skill development' exercise - dividing a paperweight into equal segments or something....
Puzzling.
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I think the clue is Limited edition and what to do with the 'seconds' a thread somewhere with a dragonfly weight of mine with an explanation.
Chris
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,49128.0.html
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Thanks Chris,
But mine is definitely not a limited edition (it's not one of the many 'special edition' moonflowers)...
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Here's my Sea Crab, It has much more going on than the ciig version.
Though, of course, the engraving is not there.