Topic: Please help ID!!! Nice scottisch Paperweight.

[incazzatonero]

I have got this PWT , but have no idea of the maker.
It looks a little bit like early caithness???
Regards.

[incazzatonero]

Rest of the pics.

[StyleModerne]

The high clear dome and the flat base indicates Murano, and a very nice one at that.

[KevinH]

Caithness "Latticino" design, 1976. Listed as having a CG cane in the base, but many did not. Sizes are somewhat variable, some have much higher domes than others.

[w84it]

Could this be another one of the same type ??

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200297159802

[incazzatonero]

Yes it is!
Thanks Kevh.
Its Caithness Latticino CT-60 from 1976.
Regards

[pooleandpaperweights]

We have ad this discussion before as I have one with no markings at all.  It does match the Latticino weight, but just before christmas a labelled weight of exactly the same design went through ebay and the label was for Willie Manson's Scotia range......  So, could be either.....

[Frank]

Scottish glass labels are known for their portability, courtesy of one notorious dealer - so should never be taken as an attribution on their own.

[KevinH]

a labelled weight of exactly the same design went through ebay and the label was for Willie Manson's Scotia range......  So, could be either.....

That's a very good point, but perhaps the Scotia ones (called "Satin Chain" in the 1980/1 catalogue) had different types of cane from the Caithness ones?

In the image of the Scotia Range example (John Simmonds' book), the inner circle canes seem to be very much like the central and outer ones. In the Caithness versions, the circle of canes are distinctly different to the others (and I have been told that in those the central and outer canes were "Ysart" but the circle canes were Caithness).