Topic: Bohemian Named Paperweight

[mhgcgolfclub]

I believe this is most likely Bohemian and early 1900's, but I may well be wrong, the base has a concaved pontil mark but I beginning to think it may have been on a stand and the stand has broke off or could it just be the way it was made

Thanks Roy

[tropdevin]

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It is certainly a Czech / Bohemian style, but I suspect yours was made at Pilkingtons, St Helens, in the 1960s.  I believe that some Czech workers came over and made a range of flowers, butterflies and so on in a rather blue-green or yellow-green glass, with designs in yellow / orange / white rod and frit.  I have a butterfly and a flower, and have seen several 'name' weights. All had a rounded base with recessed, broken pontil mark.  The older Bohemian versions tend to have clear untinted glass.

Alan

[incazzatonero]

I think Alan is right, because the name "ERNIE" ist not a german name and was not usual, at the time when the paperweight was made.

[mhgcgolfclub]

Thanks

Alan and Lothar for your very helpful replys,

Roy