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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: Nick77 on July 03, 2012, 02:11:47 PM

Title: Who made these?
Post by: Nick77 on July 03, 2012, 02:11:47 PM

This lot sold today for £800 (not to me), of the back three the middle I'm sure is Whitefriars but who made the other two especially the odd shaped right hand back one?
 Estimate was £50 -80 :o

http://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/gildings-auctioneers/catalogue-id-2861250/lot-14769387 (http://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/gildings-auctioneers/catalogue-id-2861250/lot-14769387)

Title: Re: Who made these?
Post by: tropdevin on July 03, 2012, 05:24:35 PM

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Hi Nick.

The back right is a modern Saint-Louis basket issued in 1981.  The pink flower on a white ground is also modern Saint-Louis.  The basket weights used to fetch high hundreds, and some people are still asking that sort of price (or occasionally more), but one sold recently in the US for under £500. What bothered me was that most of the weights had minor chips to the facets, and the Saint-Louis flower had some minor scratches.  The basket weight was okay though.

Alan

Title: Re: Who made these?
Post by: Nick77 on July 04, 2012, 08:56:56 AM

Hi Alan

Thanks for that, I didn't spot the auction listing in time to get a condition report or find out what they were, but watched them soar away.

Nick