Topic: Harlequin Bookends

[Ohio]

Am seeing if anyone has ever run across these Harlequin paperweights 6 1/2" height & base measures 5 7/8" X 2" width. Good mold work & glass quality excellent. I've collected Deco & a few Harlequin lamps over the years (40)  however only U.S. Harlequin piece I know of is by L E Smith & its a Harlequin Minstrel powder jar. These were sold as New Martinsville glass which I knew was incorrect & I am certain the are not any U.S. manufacturer so I thought perhaps a European manufacturer might be the possible. Thanks, Ken

[NevB]

I'm trying not to seem pedantic but is it a "pierrot" clown rather than a harlequin? It might help in the search for identification.

[chopin-liszt]

I'm exactly as pedantic as you are, Nev.  This is a pierrot. The costumes are completely different.

[Ohio]

Pierrot Yes I know. I used Harlequin as  Pierrot also shows up in that search & I've found absolutely nothing related to Pierrot glass bookends prior to using Harlequin so thought I'd try that. Porcelain, metal, marble bookends yes by the ton....glass Pierrot bookends for right or wrong also Harlequin glass bookends nothing shows up anywhere & being in glass for 41 years I was hoping someone familiar with European Glass might have an idea as they are not U.S. Thanks anyway.
 

[chopin-liszt]

  Sorry Nigel. Teaching grandmothers to suck eggs again. 
I had suspected harlequin might come up wih a lot of stuff in glass, making a search really difficult, as it's used to describe colour combinations.
Looking at the bookend itself - it looks fairly new and a tad on the gift-shop side of things, which would fit with a pierrot theme too.
I don't think it's Matts Johnason, but something along those lines.

[NevB]

Apologies from me too. I can't help much with the identifying these but I did a quick search just under "glass bookends" which at least threw up some possible manufacturers, I think all them American.

[chopin-liszt]

More apologies Ken.
You're not a Nigel.

[Ohio]

Thanks. Actually I believe they are possible Czech as many years ago I saw a Pair of Bear bookends that had this exact base with the sawtooth marking on the base marked Czechoslovakia & went back to get them less that 10 minutes later at the sale they were gone. These are unmarked but since the narrow base design had the same sawtooth design on the base marking I had hopes someone might have seen them. I figured it was a long shot when I googled just about every combination I could think of even including deco Minstrel glass bookends & coming up empty. These are not U.S. as they were labeled New Martinsville which they are not, but probably someone thought since NM made the town drunk figure glass bookends that these might be related. Crazy though that nothing pops although that is exactly why I bought them as a deco type collector I knew I had never seen these Pierrot type bookends in glass in decades of collecting but though maybe just maybe someone in Europe might recognize them. Do appreciate the response though & its not the first time I've come up empty. Years ago I had a Kosta Lindstrand 16" cut vase that had a number that did not exist in factory records that turned out to be from the 1957 London manufacturers show & it took me 8 years to find that out.