Topic: If only...

[tropdevin]

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If only this paperweight were Baccarat  (rather than Chinese) I would be much better off!

Alan

[keith]

Me to,I've got two!

[johnphilip]

I have a few round my fish pond with my Seguso birdbath . :chky: Flash Arry .

[tropdevin]

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Sadly, the seller tells me he has a letter to go with it proving the identity as Baccarat, and will relist with the 'proof'. Oh dear....

Alan

[keith]

What if he's right and we're all wrong?was that a winged mammal of the family Suidae swooping low over my house?

[tropdevin]

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I guess they would be Sus Volans?

Well, I told the seller very politely that even having a letter of authenticity did not make it a Baccarat weight, but I got a rather brusque response.  Maybe the seller needs advice from a few more collectors...

Alan

[keith]

Mmm..dans ses reves peut-etre porcs volen? excuse any mistakes,Keith.

[Frank]

The Baccarat Scandal - Royal no less  :24:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230416938797

[KevinH]

Hmmm - tenuous link there, Frank! The Royal Baccarat Scandal was about cheating at the card game See this Wiki link for (presumed reasonable) info.

A good story, though, based around a set of three paperweights and intrigue set within a background of emporers and revolutions, is: The Curse of the Imperial Paperweights, by George N. Kulles. The paperweights were said to be special one-offs made at St Louis (rather than Baccarat - so another tenuous link there after the factory had ceased its normal 19th century paperweight production. All who came into contact with the paperweights died in mysterious circumstances. It's a good read with a better, and more plausible, mystery than any of the Chinese-turned-into-Baccarat paperweight ones.

[mhgcgolfclub]

I thought I had a Baccarat for a while with lots of little chips

Roy