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ahremck:
Are the scored lines across the base a "Baccarat" feature or a "Murano" feature.  I notice your Murano weight does not have them.  I will have a look in some books and see what I can turn up.

I like both weights extremely :o :mrgreen: - no matter who made them.

Ross

tropdevin:
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I have told the seller it is Murano (and so has a friend of mine). He got a very patronising reply, I got a polite but dismissive reply as below:

Description: Beautiful double overlay Art glass paperweight features blue cut to white to clear design with multicolored millefiori center. The base has a paper label BIRKS # 2306, otherwise unsigned but attributed to Baccarat - less than a quarter of the Antique paperweights made by Baccarat contain date or signature canes......Dimensions : 2-1/2" x 2-1/2" x by 2-3/8" high. It is in excellent condition, no damage, chips or repairs. This is what I found on a different site. It is a Baccarat Millefiori but thank you very much for the information.
Thank You

I don't understand the relevance of providing a description of a different paperweight on a different site.

There's none so blind as them that cannot see...

Alan

Wuff:

--- Quote from: tropdevin on February 22, 2011, 10:39:32 AM ---I don't understand the relevance of providing a description of a different paperweight on a different site.
--- End quote ---

Correct - the description doesn't mean anything.
I had also informed the seller that this was a Murano - and got a somewhat similar response (like "this is Baccarat ... see another offer ..."). When I asked for the URL I got the following address:
http://www.goantiques.com/detail,vintage-baccarat-overlay,1812779.html
which obviously is the site from which the description (quoted by Alan) came.

OK - what is this one? I would say - another Murano: all you need to start with, is an incorrect attribution - which then can be recycled endlessly for other incorrect attributions :cry:.

A more general question: according to the above auction, it is a Baccarat made in the 1930-40's ... did Baccarat make paperweights during this time frame, I mean Baccarat, not Baccarat-Dupont.

johnphilip:
Hi Alan thats a coincidence ,it looks like it has come from the same stable as my one on ebay that i asked for your opinion a couple of days ago , we both agreed that was Murano .

KevinH:
All of the weights referred to above are Murano. With or without cross-cut bases. With or without a "mushroom stem" beneath the millefiori. With four or five side facets. The canes are Murano. The weights are Murano.

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