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Hi all.
I am not convinced by the arguments that have been put forward elsewhere that Pantin millefiori paperweights definitely exist. Much appears to turn on a single paperweight shown in the Clichy book with a Pantin like lampwork tulip, and a garland of 'later Clichy' canes. That seems to have led Paul Dunlop to suggest that the canes are really Pantin, and so therefore are some of the paperweights we call 'later Clichy'. The Clichy book was written with the assistance of the descendants of the owners of the Clichy factory, which gives some authority to it, in my view - although that is not a clinching argument.
Now, canes move around...so what happened to the cane stock when Clichy closed? Maybe it was used as cullet, or sent to landfill. Maybe it went to a glass factory in another Paris suburb that was still making paperweights (which we refer to as Pantin), where it was used to make paperweights - hence some Clichy/Pantin hybrids... I would have happily accepted the eBay weight was a later Clichy, and nothing fancier. On the other hand, maybe there really are Pantin millefiori weights, and maybe some of the unknowns in my collection are Pantin.
I know where I would puy my money though...
Alan