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Pinkspoons:
I did a quick check when the Avondale name came up - a quite similar one to my blue one sold recently for £20-ish. It's not a huge amount, but considering I only paid £2 I could indeed have done worse.

It's unusual for any company these days to not have a website, though. Most odd.

Anne E.B.:
I seem to have lost the original picture from my own gallery, and the Tinypic. one has disappeared, so I've done another showing my mushroom/toadstool collection.  They look better in daylight!
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/glassie/mushrooms2005.jpg

The large one in the middle is the Avondale.  The one on the right, I think is the one that Ray previously dentified as being Heron Glass.  Heron Glass are in Cumbria where Ray is.  Perhaps if Ray is looking in he can confirm that it is this one and not the little blue irridescent one.  My original photo was labelled, and I've forgotten which was which :roll:  (another senior moment :evil:)

Although I no longer have it, I have included a pic. of the Avondale ring holder that I mentioned earlier.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/glassie/193.jpg
It has the same mottled effect and colours seen in the mushroom.  Incredibly organic I think you will agree. :)

Your Mtarfa is an interesting one.  The stem/base is as big as the top.  I like the colours.  I'm never quite sure if these mushrooms are meant to be paperweights or not?  The larger heaver ones certainly could be.  I wonder if the paperweight collectors in the other forum collect these also?

Regards - Anne E.B. :wink:

Edited 22.10.05.  Caught up with Ray on the Paperweight board and he has confirmed that the small blue one is the Heron Glass.

KevinH:
I specialise in Ysart and Ysart-related weights and so far I have not seen any mushroom thingies from those makers.

But hang on, I've just remembered that I do have a couple of hundred other paperweights, mostly tucked away in cupboards (there is very little space in my living quarters). And I think I might have a glass mushroom amongst them for which I have no idea of the maker. Maybe I should try to find it and post a pic?

However ... I do know of paperweight collectors who have several glass mushrooms proudly (and very pleasingly) displayed amongst their weights. Perhaps they believe them to be paperweights?

And paperweight dealers sometimes do offer glass mushrooms amongst their stock. For example: http://www.sweetbriar.co.uk/uploads/HeronMushrooms.jpg

In the paperweight collecting world, there are items that are regarded as "paperweight related" - so perhaps the mushrooms are grouped into that category?

For a better answer, I reckon Ray should stroll across the road and ask his local glassmakers (Heron Glass) if they make and sell them as paperweiights or simply as decorative gift items.

Ivo:
throwing in an Avondale apple
http://tinypic.com/etrw46.jpg
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 :P

Frank:
Perhaps toadstools are made by glassblowers trapped in a paperweight makers body and just trying to create a new form.

Surely if paperweights, they will become of great rarity as every time you grab your papers they fall over and may become two!

I just got an apple by Andrew Holmes and it looks like it would be equally limited as a paperweight.

I guess that what I am saying is that a paperweight has to be able to serve its intended function or it is not one.

I just read Paul J Stankard's "Homage to Nature" ISBN 0 8109 4473 1. He is regarded as a paperweight artists yet his less conventional forms are not described by him as paperweights. It is a good read to get a perspective on this issue from an artists's viewpoint - and what better artist than one who is regarded with such esteem.

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