Topic: ID?

[tropdevin]

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Hi mildawg.

Thanks for the images - some interesting canes, of good quality. I do not see any 'complex' canes though - ones that have been made by bundling canes together, re-heating, and re-drawing.  The canes could be Old English, but I think it is easier to rule out factories than to home in on one. I do not think it was made by Arculus, Walsh Walsh, or Bacchus.  It reminds me a little of the paperweight shown below: this includes a green 'Queen's Head' cane which has appeared in a few Richardson pieces. But the rest of the canes do not look like known Richardson canes.

It could be that the paperweight you show and the one I have shown are from an as yet unidentifed factory (there are many Stourbridge and Birmingham factories who may have made paperweights).  Factories opened and closed and changed ownership frequently in the mid 19th century, and the stock and glassmakers moved from one factory to another. So I suspect canes made in one factory got combined with and used in others.

Alan

[mildawg]

Alan, there are a few complex canes. but they are hard to photograph.  Here are a couple. Most seem to incorporate the blue cane which contains a star inside a star at the center.  The last one is a partial of three red stars.  There is what appears to be an errant white speck there that oddly enough is shaped like the queens head.  I don't believe it is. 

[tropdevin]

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Hi mildawg.

Thanks for the additional images.  It is possible that the little shape you show just might be a 'queen's head', of the simple style used by Richardson - but that wouldn't help a lot with ID!  I have added an image below of an Old English paperweight that I own which has some canes rather like the weight we are discussing.  Mine is a magnum, and at the moment from an 'unknown maker'.

Alan