Topic: Buy of the week

[pooleandpaperweights]

Bumping this thread to see if gets any more life with this.

Brought the selkirk glass picture frame, ebay item 320934953000, for £2.60    It isn't signed, but has a selkirk glass engraving sticker, instead of the normal selkirk sticker.  Wonderd if anyone knew if this was selkirk or not for definate?

cheers
Ian

[Wuff]

In the 2002 and 2003 Selkirk catalogues there are different products by "Selkirk Glass Engravers", designed by Fiona McDiarmid:
1. Candlelights
2. Candleholders
3. Stemmed dishes
4. Shot glasses
5. Paperweights (in 3 sizes) - see attached image
6. Low bowl
No image frame mentioned, let alone depicted - so I would very much appreciate if you could post some better images (than on ebay) incl. of the sticker.

There were 4 designs:
- two "Celtic inspired"
- one "Jazz" modern freestyle arrangement
- one "MacKintosh inspired"

If you "blow up" the MacKintosh inspired design to encompass the image frame it indeed looks very similar.

[pooleandpaperweights]

Personally the label is rather interesting as well.

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r267/pooleandpaperweights/2012-07-16184451.jpg

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r267/pooleandpaperweights/2012-07-16184509.jpg

I can send you better pictures when the weather is better Wuff, or use those under blanket

Ian

[pooleandpaperweights]

For me the label seals it as being correct, as who would bother to find a label and put it on, for that, and the pattern matches

£2.60 bargain I think.  I can see it getting a wedding photo in it in 6 weeks time (we hope, for my mum....)

Ian

[tropdevin]

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Here are images of a St Mandé miniature which not only has a nice centre rose cane, but also a garland of alternating blue rose canes and pink ones centred by roses.

Alan

[mildawg]

^^^^love it.

I'll play.  Here is my buy of the week....nothing overly special per se other than the fact it cost me very, very little.  3 inches, has some light scratching to dome.

[flying free]

Mildawg who made your paperweight and is it possible to put a larger picture on please? 
m

[tropdevin]

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Hi. The weight is a Clichy scramble.  These vary enormously from ones with nearly all small cane fragments, through to ones that are nearly all full pieces of cane.  Mildawg's is intermediate - but you can see a Clichy white/pink rose cane in it.

Alan

[mildawg]

Alan is correct, it is Clichy.  I only have one pic that was taken with my phone and have tried to resize and attached.  Also cropped a section to attach.  It does have five or six rose canes or parts there of in it and some other nice full canes. 

As Alan mentioned there is the white/pink, there is also a white/purple rose on the side that can't be seen.  Next to the white/pink rose there is a full pink/green rose and is what I believe some refer to as a double rose (rose within a rose), on the outside edge there is a quarter of a all pink rose and where the light is shining there is a quarter pink/green.

No signature cane fragments that I can find,  I keep looking hoping one will show up

[Wuff]

Personally the label is rather interesting as well.
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r267/pooleandpaperweights/2012-07-16184451.jpg
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r267/pooleandpaperweights/2012-07-16184509.jpg

I just had a response from Peter Holmes about your picture frame:

The image you have sent me of the photo frame, was a development idea that Selkirk had but never really took off. The glass came from Italy, Selkirk just engraved it.