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Sulphide dome paperweight - man's head & shoulders - who is he?

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Anne E.B.:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/glassie/DSCF1444.jpg

Any ideas who the distinguished looking man is please?  Engraved across the back are the words "Still unconcquered."

There's lots of age related wear on the base around the edges, so this might be covered a maker's mark.  Any ideas who made it please?  I haven't a clue about paperweights :huh:

TIA ;)

Anne E.B.:
Who didn't pay attention in history class at school? :pb: :-[

Duke of Wellington!  Just about spotted Wellington through all the little age related scratches around the base edge.  There also looks to be a printed number which I can't make out, and probably more writing which is obscured.  So, I've discovered who he is, but any ideas as to how old this paperweight is and who might have made it please? :kissy:  I'm guessing its English, if the patriotic words on the back are anything to go by :huh:

johnphilip:
Bacchus is a possibility

KevinH:
Anne, is the sulphide set very close to one "side" of the weight?

I am reasonably sure that this is a 19th centurry Scottish (!!) paperweight made at the John Ford, Holyrood Flint Glass Works. Information in Bob Hal's book Scottish Paperweights suggests this type of weight was made from around 1875.

KevinH:
JP's suggestion of Bacchus is interesting but weights with sulphides are, as far as I know, not known from that company.

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