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Blue,white,green and touch of red scramble millefiori

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flying free:
is it possible this weight was made at Josephinenhutte please?  or is there evidence or even any thoughts as to why it could not be from there ?
many thanks
m

tropdevin:
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Hi m

If you look through Peter von Brackel's second book (Classic Paperweights from Silesia / Bohemia), Chapter 11 is devoted to a range of paperweights once attributed to Bohemia. Some of these have canes that look very similar to those in your weight.  Peter now attributes these weights to one or more unknown French factories, and believes that the 'Bohemian' attribution used in the past was a mistake. I think you can rule out Josephinenhutte - their canes look fairly different.

I wonder whether your weight (and the ones Peter shows) might be from later production at Grenelle, but that is speculation based on no more than the vague similarity of the canes to St Mandé and Grenelle.

Alan

flying free:
thank you Alan :)

alpha:
I would vote for Grenelle. There was a good article on the factory in last year's PCA Bulletin.

flying free:
Thank you - so is the 'Factory 8' classification that Kev talked about, a group that is possibly French then?
And does mine still belong to the Factory 8 group :)
I've come about this in an odd way, as really I'm trying to match the weight to something else :) and clarification of the weight might have helped.
I'm still very interested in time as to what the weight might be but have no intention of selling - I'm just happy to see what comes out eventually :)
Many thanks
m

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