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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: adam20 on July 21, 2012, 10:45:17 AM

Title: Large Barbini Paperweight
Post by: adam20 on July 21, 2012, 10:45:17 AM
Not sure if this should be in paperweights or Murano - large clear glass weight with bubbles, 3.5" diam - etched Barbini Murano to bottom side - any idea on date as I can't find anything too similar on net or in my books.

Thanks Adam
Title: Re: Large Barbini Paperweight
Post by: adam20 on July 21, 2012, 02:54:07 PM
Have looked on eBay USA and there are clear glass signed Barbini - exact same signature - dating from 60s 70s. Any further info welcomed.
Title: Re: Large Barbini Paperweight
Post by: TxSilver on July 22, 2012, 02:41:06 AM
I may be able to help. Barbini began signing things on the side like this in the 1980s. They are still signed this way. The paperweight looks like a 1980s or later work to me, which agrees with the signature.