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Green glass dump paperweights with clay figures in them encrusted cameo sulphide
flying free:
Thank you Kev :) I did manage to find the William Drew Gaskill papers online :-X Not sure if they were complete...well I found two anyway (2003 I think?). I 'd found the self published book, which sounds to be the most appropriate, but not the other so I will investigate. I may have to try and get the book. But I end up buying these books and discovering I might have one piece pictured out of the entire volume - I know they are very useful and also very interesting, but it makes my pieces go from being quite a cost effective buy to extortionately expensive :-[ and in the case of paperweights, I have a handful left that are curiosities rather than a collection if you see what I mean.
It's a dilemma :)
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tropdevin:
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If you go for a book on dumps, I recommend Mary Skotnicki's as by far the best - she has probably the best collection of dumps in the world, and the book shows some very unusual pieces, as well as the more common place (she used to fight Bill Gaskill for anything rare...). It does not give current prices, of course - which are perhaps a third or less of what they were 10 years ago for the run of the mill designs.
Many of the sulphide dumps, foil dumps and 'bubble' dumps are mid to late Victorian, and from many glass factories in the UK. However, they were made through to the 1960s in at least one factory. The hardest to find are signed 'Kilner' or 'Redfearn' with an impressed seal on the base.
Beware of very clean, relatively tall pieces in pale blue-green glass, with tiers of flowers and with a flat ground base. These came in by the crate load a few years ago, all the way from China, and were offered for sale as 'Victorian dumps' at ludicrously high prices by a number of sellers on eBay and at Antiques Fairs. Quite a few people were taken in...but thankfully they seem to have all been sold now.
Alan
flying free:
Thank you Alan. I shall investigate the book and thanks for the extra information on the 'new'weights. I'm not attracted to the flower pot ones, it's just the ones with figures in them really and there don't seem to be many of those around at all unless I'm not using the right search terms.
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tropdevin:
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Hi.
I think you are right that the sulphide dumps seem to be uncommon - I have not come across that many in the last 15 years. I don't think it is your search terms!
Alan
flying free:
ok thanks :) I've been using all sorts of key words but still all I've found is about 5. Perhaps the two authors you mention have them all. I can't wait for this one to arrive. I'm desperate to get some good photos and have a look at what they are really like. I do think the image is the same one as that one I linked to curiously, it's just a smaller piece and she isn't stood on a 'pedestal' thing from what I could make out. I wonder who she is? She looks like she is either throwing a cape round her shoulders or carrying something with one arm above her shoulder and over her head sort of. I'll post pics when it arrives.
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There is a Florence Nightingale here - I'd read about her but not been able to find her (page 9 I think on the link)
http://www.dvpaperweights.org/newsletters/pdf/dvpca_march2004newsltr.pdf
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