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Author Topic: Orient & Flume American paperweights? ID = Murano  (Read 1455 times)

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Offline CollectoMundi

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Orient & Flume American paperweights? ID = Murano
« on: March 30, 2020, 08:33:30 PM »
Please find as attachment two unsigned paperweights

both are purchased in Lille France and one has a retail sticker of a shop in Orléans.

Both are completely unsigned.

My guess would be Orient & Flume yet these are always signed. Any other guesses?

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Re: Orient & Flume American paperweights?
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2020, 02:10:28 PM »
I too personally doubt O&F as they seem to have marked very well.  However, I do suspect a USA maker for at least the Yellow one, because the early paperweight makers in the USA studio movement were heavily into surface decoration - basically because they did not have the skills to create items with internal decorations.   The second one could be much more modern and come from the far side of Asia.

I suggest you join a Facebook Group called "Paperweight Heaven"  https://www.facebook.com/groups/paperweightheaven/.   It has at least two very knowledgeable US collectors and they will be able in most cases to point you successfully.   I suggest you send each as a separate post with three photos at least of the Pwt.  One a general view like your first photos, second of the base from a little to one side (as for your yellow one), and a third taken from side on.  You may also like to photograph the canes as details.   IMPORTANT : the Facebhook groups have no restrictions on photographic size, so the bigger the better is the rule.   Unlike here where you need to shrink to a size.   Good hunting.

The first one looks to me like a USA maker in the 70s, and there were quite a few.  It shows a proper pulled feather design for the lower half.  Not saying it is any of these  - however Stephen Smyers, Northern Star, Abelman, Lundberg, GES, Mount St Helens, Nourot, OBG(Ornamentam Blown Glass), Zellique, from my own collection had the skills to make it.

I have also collected images from Ebay and elsewhere that I am reasonably sure of the attribution - and I will mention some more possible suspects.   Correia Studio, Vandermark, Mark Cantor, Carl Radke/Pheonix Studios, Don Richardson and finally Liberty Village.  Don Richardson is not related to Cathy or Colin - they are far to recent.

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Re: Orient & Flume American paperweights?
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2020, 02:44:23 PM »
I've had several examples of this paperweight including one with a Murano paperweight.  I believe that is what it is - from Murano.  It doesn't have the same feel in hand as an O&F weight.
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Re: Orient & Flume American paperweights?
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2020, 10:48:48 PM »
Absolutely. Definitely Murano.

This is what I said in the other thread where these weights feature also.

CollectoMundi: have a look at the following items on Ebay:

402072869020
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293052852420

Sophie

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