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Author Topic: Please help ID Maker: Old English Magnum Victoria Head  (Read 1554 times)

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Offline casalibre

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Please help ID Maker: Old English Magnum Victoria Head
« on: October 17, 2014, 03:15:30 PM »
Now I have got this weight,
Dia 10 cm
Height 5,1 cm
but can not identify the maker.
Perhaps it is one of the old English "unknown makers"?
And: any ideas about the value?

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Re: Please help ID Maker: Old English Magnum Victoria Head
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2014, 06:48:29 PM »
Hi

I have had two very large (10 cm or so) old English paperweights with two or three rings of millefiori set around the same head cane. They were not classic Bacchus, but  included some broadly Bacchus style canes. Were they Bacchus? I do not know for certain, but I suspect not. I think the same applies to your paperweight. Unusual, interesting...but probably made using canes that were 'inherited'.

As you know, we do not suggest values on GMB, but I can tell you that my examples sold for less than EURO 200.

Alan
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