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Offline marc

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PAPERWEIGHT ID
« on: February 25, 2008, 08:54:34 PM »
Hello all.
Yesterday I bought this paperweight, I apreciate if anyone here might have any idea where it was made and antiquity , I'm a  Beginner collector, thanks
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Offline glasstrufflehunter

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Re: PAPERWEIGHT ID
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2008, 10:06:37 PM »
It's Italian. I don't know the maker. I've heard some identify weights like this as Fratelli Toso but it doesn't look like the FT weights I have. My guess it is no older than the 1950s.

The canes are very pretty. You found a nice one!
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