Topic: Genuine 19th century murano?

[david220]

I as wondering if the following paperweight is a genuine murano. It has imperfections, the butterfly has a  large bubble near 1 wing and it has other imperfections.

Their are gold dust specs in the paperweight, a large amount are in the bottom left corner.

Not sure if the word murano is written on the red stem. It may just be 6 bubbles though.

Pics -

Pic links removed now the images are on the board.

[Anne]

Hello and welcome to the board. We ask that you upload your images onto the board via the attachment function, rather than linking to offsite images which tend to vanish after a while leaving the topic rather useless.  If you need help in uploading them please see our help topic here https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,34093.0.html.

[david220]

My pictures would not upload. I spent 30 mins trimming a picture and it would not of been viewable under 125kb. The pics on are 4mb linked to a site I own.

[KevinH]

Hi David,

We appreciate that many members have trouble with resizing large images to attain the Board requirements of below 125Kb per image.

We have provided a "Techie Tip" for resizing in the "Information, Help & Announcements" section of the Board.
See: https://www.glassmessages.com/index.phptopic,34093.msg154302.html#msg154302
The final post (as at today) in that thread has my preferred recommendation for an online resizing routine. It still works well but sadly is now subjected to Ads overlays and the stages of operation can seem a little trickier than they used to be!

However, I tried one of your images through the picresize routine using cropping to reduce the left side and then setting width to 800 pixels. It provided a good image at 130Kb. With a small touch of manual optimising I finalised the image to under 125Kb (if I had set the width in the online routime to, say, 700 pixels the Kb size would have been below the 125 limit).

I also did a fully manual tweaking via Photoshop Elements (old version) and it produced a result as good as the online routine. See the two images below - firstly the online routine (rsz_dsc_0041.jpg [105Kb]) then my fully manual efforts (Cropped-Copy-Resized-800pix-opt.jpg [112Kb])

[chopin-liszt]

The weight looks decidedly contemporary Chinese to me, now I can see it. 

[tropdevin]

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Agreed - modern Chinese.

Alan

[david220]

Shame. Probably a Chinese one then. Thanks for the advice