Topic: As discussed earlier bubble ashtray id please

[Lustrousstone]

It's a Caithness second. The letters are CIIG

[langhaugh]

Christine:

 Thanks for putting me out of my misery. Caithness, indeed.  It turns out that the whole thing I was right about was that variations of these were made in many countries.

David

[Pain]

Thanks I finally can name one of my pieces  :clap:

[obscurities]

Just shows how little I know...  I must say that I do not think I have ever even held a piece of Caithness glass....   Don't get much here in Washington state in the US.

Craig

[Lustrousstone]

It's perhaps not typical. They have produced a huge range of stuff over the years. They did have a fabulous collection of all their paperweights (some of them really beautiful) but they were all sold when they went into receivership. They were bought out but now make less glass in-house and also let some of their best paperweight makers go (I don't think any of them are still working in glass for a living  :cry:  )

[langhaugh]

Craig: Don't be too worried. I have some Caithness, have watched them blowing it in Oban, and still didn't pick it up. The bowl looked much heavier than the Caithness I'm used to, or perhaps that was just a mistaken perception. Some used to be sold in a couple of stores in Oregon and Washington. I've seen a couple of pieces in second hand stores in Oregon, but they're been generally undistinguished, and certainly not the good paperweights.

Christine: did a few of the glass makers from Caithness not go to Selkirk Glass, or was that from another company?

David

[Pain]

What sort of weight does Caithness have to it in general so I dont get things mixed up.  This bowl is heavy so wasnt a misperception.  I am learning at the mo and will be on the hunt at the weekend lots of vide greniers coming up.  One with 700 stalls I shall be in my element!

[Lustrousstone]

Caithness seems to have whatever weight took the designer's fancy, although tending to heavier and often cased in clear. Much of it is fairly uninspired but some is nice. www.scotlandsglass.co.uk has some catalogues. Many of the run of the mill abstract paperweights are pretty but uninspired but the limited editions and one-offs by people like Allan Scoot, Shona Spittal, Helen MacDonald and Colin Terris have wow factor.

Here are a couple of my pieces but these are atypical http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,19391.0.html
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,24266.0.html

Peter Holmes was at Caithness before Selkirk, but Selkirk went under before Caithness