Topic: Webb and Corbett Paperweight

[chopin-liszt]

I've never been able to work out how my spider weight was "engraved".
The round body bits look like a smooth, satinated acid finish, but the bigger round has further decoration in a large triangle and two smaller v-shaped notches inside it o depict the beastie's markings. The legs have weird edges which make them look hairy.

The v-shaped notches are not centred.
If somebody else who has the spider weight could check their body notches to see if they are central or not, it might give us some ideas?
If somebody else's notches are central, then these could have been done later. 

[Ekimp]

I’ve started a topic that shows the glass I mentioned that has a horse printed on the side, possibly using the same technique as the printed paperweight: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,71983.0.html

[chopin-liszt]

Great pics there. The decor stands proud of the body.
My spider is quite deep into my weight.

[keith]

Close up of my spider and another weight with the 'printed' style of decoration...

[chopin-liszt]

 
Our spiders are different. Very, very similar, aiming to be the same, but not. There are the same numbers of legs up and down, but in mine, the two legs that are around the head end up in different places.
The antenna in mine are much more parallel than yours, which tend towards each other at the ends. Mine are also longer.
The "hairiness" on the legs is different. I'd say these were done by hand.
I also think my eye rounds are slightly different sizes.

(I can see the big V on the back of your spider's body, but not the two smaller v-notches inside it.)

That was exactly the pic I needed to be able to hold my weight up beside it to compare, thanks Keith. 

[NevB]

Here's my Boris for comparison.

[chopin-liszt]

Yours has different notches inside the big V to mine. You have something more akin to quotation marks - the double comma, while mine has small v-shapes, with the points being the opposite way around to the big one.

They all seem to be placed differently on the web too.
Sorry I can't post a pic of mine, but it is quite easy to see that Keith's and Nev's are different from the pics posted here.

[Lustrousstone]

The spiders are engraved, so unless they were all done at the same time by the same person, they will vary. There is no need for them to be identical, just similar, because people only buy one

[keith]

A clear one to go with the others, not sure how many of these paperweights I have now, they're everywhere !

[chopin-liszt]

Would this be copper wheel engraved, then?
Your clear one has my v-shaped notches, Keith.