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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: Roger H on February 21, 2013, 11:53:00 AM
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Hi there, I know this stopper has been on the board before but I cant find it and yet I have seen it. So I am setting a new topic on it because I have just purchased it and its in excellent condition and it now sits in the top of my walsh walsh ink bottle and makes it look very balanced.
I do realize it isnt an exact match and is probably about 20 years out of sync but it does look good.
Having a close inspection of the canes, within them is a circle of diamond shapes, circle of heart shapes and the inner circle are club shapes.
Do you like it??? Regards Roger. :)
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It looks good Roger, glad you like it, the thread wasn't originally about this stopper but about a Richardsons bottle it's here http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,49679.msg280612.html#msg280612 (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,49679.msg280612.html#msg280612)
Your botlle looks pretty good to me. I also have a bottle with a stopper that is not an exact cane match, not looked at it too closely since I got it but probably Richardsons.
Kind regards
Nick
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Wouldn't it be amazing if you each swapped stoppers and they matched your bottles ;D
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It doesn't fit Kevin I sold it to Roger ;) I'd given up trying to find a bottle to match.
My current one has the thin Richardson type stopper shaft.
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Hi Nick / Roger.
The stopper with heart canes is, I believe, a Whitefriars stopper from around 1950, just when Walsh Walsh finished, and some workers migrated there. A few years ago I had a bottle with a very similar stopper, including heart canes - but the base had canes which were a strange mix of Whitefriars moulding and Walsh Walsh 7/6 centres. I think it was discussed on a thread on this board some time ago, and some of the canes in my bottle turned up in examples of Whitefriars Triplex and EIIR 1953 weights. I also had a paperweight with heart canes - see image below - at least two different canes match your stopper.
Coincidentally, I took the bottle back in part exchange recently, so once the dust has settled on the PCC AGM this weekend I should be able to take some new images of it.
Alan
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Well that looks as close as any two stoppers will get.(circa 1950).
How about starting up an inky dinky bottle stopper swapper page?? but I guess that would be difficult because money might get involved.
Regards Roger.