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Author Topic: Royal Brierley weight, is it ?  (Read 1098 times)

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Offline keith

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Re: Royal Brierley weight, is it ?
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2015, 11:33:32 AM »
The picture from this post has gone and I wondered if it was similar to the one in the link I posted above, the question I have is did RB'y make them or import them and stick on a label, ??? ??? ??? ;D
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,50089.msg282896.html#msg282896

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Re: Royal Brierley weight, is it ?
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2015, 03:19:51 PM »
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Royal Brierly certainly imported from Murano at one point, and added their own marketing label. I don't think they ever made their own canes and produced paperweights.

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Re: Royal Brierley weight, is it ?
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2015, 07:01:44 PM »
Thanks Alan, they did sell other weights, might this also have been imported, etched Royal Brierley to the base....

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