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Title: help please on this quality paperweight
Post by: stew2u2 on August 23, 2011, 10:38:15 AM
really nice paperweight looks like a piece of lace in glass. any ideas to the maker please ground flat base

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Title: Re: help please on this quality paperweight
Post by: Roger H on August 23, 2011, 12:44:55 PM
   Hi Stew, all look like Murano canes to me, if it is its a very good one, well done. I'm sure you will have other comments about it on here shortly. Regards Roger.
Title: Re: help please on this quality paperweight
Post by: stew2u2 on August 24, 2011, 11:41:27 AM
thanks roger
thought about murano but the ones i have had before have had larger canes.
Title: Re: help please on this quality paperweight
Post by: SophieB on August 24, 2011, 12:20:08 PM
Hi Stew,

I thought a good Murano, too. I have always associated the 'larger' canes with earlier makers (60s - 70s). The smaller canes can be found in weights made later by the 3Fiori or Millefiori factory, for example. I would tend to go with one of those two for your weight.

SophieB

PS: For some examples (see the millefiori trees) of their wares see Alan's - alias Tropdevin - Murano project by accessing his website at:
http://www.pwts.co.uk/
Title: Re: help please on this quality paperweight
Post by: tropdevin on August 24, 2011, 07:00:05 PM
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Hi Stew

An attractive weight. I would agree with a Murano attribution, as proposed by Roger and SophieB. The flat polished base is typical, and at times, some Murano makers have used a lot of smaller canes.

However, other makers have used Murano canes for their weights - or got them made in Murano and then re-labelled them - so you cannot rule that out. Edinburgh Crystal sold paperweights with relatively fine Murano canes for a time - so that is a possibility for your weight - though I don't recall seeing any close concentrics like yours.

Alan (....of the website....).
Title: Re: help please on this quality paperweight
Post by: stew2u2 on August 24, 2011, 09:45:35 PM
Thanks Alan and Sophie
all ideas are gratefully received love trying to find who what and where even tho this site makes it a lot easier 
Title: Re: help please on this quality paperweight
Post by: Roger H on August 25, 2011, 10:26:01 PM
     Hi all, the Edinburgh crystal weights,made by caithness for them I believe, always should have an E cane in the formation and backstamped also. Nevertheless several modern weight makers use murano canes I understand because there technique of weight making doesn't make it easy to create them. Its still a good weight. Regards Roger.
Title: Re: help please on this quality paperweight
Post by: tropdevin on August 26, 2011, 05:55:44 AM
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Hi Roger.

Most of the paperweights that Caithness made for Edinburgh do indeed have an E cane. But not all, though. The P&O Cruise commemorative I sold recently does not have an E cane.

Edinburgh Crystal also bought in weights from Murano, added their silver label and a box, and sold them as 'Edinburgh Crystal' - there are quite a few around. I'll try and find some images of one.

Alan
Title: Re: help please on this quality paperweight
Post by: tropdevin on August 26, 2011, 07:55:08 AM
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I have found the images of an Edinburgh weight using Murano canes - not the best made paperweight that I have seen!

Alan

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Title: Re: help please on this quality paperweight
Post by: Roger H on August 26, 2011, 09:10:17 PM
    Hi Alan, yes it seems that all the weights made by Caithness for Edinburgh Crystal, 1986 & 1987 were required to have an "E" in the setup. But that doesn't go for other years which I understand were only up to 1990?, and other places they were imported from.
      Had a Ed weight a while ago but haven't got it now, except for a photo of course. Mind you its still in the shop were I sold it,saw it today.
      The Murano Ed Crystal you put on is nowhere near as good as  the Caithness version is it. SAD.
               Getting back to the original weight in question, for a Murano weight its very fine,as Stew said like fine lace. By the way has anybody seen the six pointed star in the diamond shaped cane before?? Photo of my old Caith/ Ed Crystal uploaded. The weight is made 1986 not 1976 as my photo says. The "E" is in the centre cane.
                             Regards Roger.
Title: Re: help please on this quality paperweight
Post by: tropdevin on August 27, 2011, 06:41:12 AM
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Hi Roger. I doubt that the cane is actually diamond shaped: it would be very hard to make that shape, and there would be no good reason to do so. In the weight it seems to vary from circular to diamond shape; I am fairly sure from my own limited experience of making paperweights that this is due to it being squashed into the gaps between other canes during manufacture. I suspect the off-white colour means that the glass melts at a slightly lower temperature than the other canes, so it is softer, and distorts more. That said, fairly simple six pointed stars are not common in Murano weights - I can only find one example scanning through my Murano project images. They occur more frequently as elements of more complicated canes.

Alan
Title: Re: help please on this quality paperweight
Post by: Roger H on August 27, 2011, 05:13:04 PM
          This discussion is at least following a good thread, understand what you mean, has anyone definately concluded it was made on Murano or elsewhere with Murano canes? Looks a bit Drew Ebalhare but not good enough though.  :-\
       Roger
Title: Re: help please on this quality paperweight
Post by: KevinH on August 27, 2011, 10:16:36 PM
The weight has a reasonable similarity in the way it is set up, with tightly set canes, to some photographed by Bob Hall while visiting Murano and shown in his 2001 book, World Paperweights.
Title: Re: help please on this quality paperweight
Post by: Roger H on August 28, 2011, 03:35:41 PM
      Yes I can see the smilarity there. Excellent book Bob compiled and our compliments to him. Perhaps one day I'll visit the island to see first hand. Goes to prove that there is a vast spectrum of Murano quality. I can understand how some can get exited by Murano collecting.
                         Roger