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Author Topic: Webb and Corbett Paperweight  (Read 2836 times)

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Offline Ekimp

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Re: Webb and Corbett Paperweight
« Reply #20 on: June 30, 2022, 02:56:38 PM »
I bought this drinking glass in the charity shop today, only 20p. It has the exact same printed image as Keith shows in reply 13 that is on his Webb Corbett style weight. Did Webb Corbett ever make glasses such as this?

The glass is very light with no ping when flicked so assume soda glass. There is a knob in the base of the bowl above where the stem is attached and it has an electroplated type gold rim. 11cm tall.


Would this be copper wheel engraved, then?

[For the engraved weights] I assume large manufacturers would use copper wheel engraving and it would only be small workshops:hobbyists that use Dremel type tools (drill engraving).
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Re: Webb and Corbett Paperweight
« Reply #21 on: June 30, 2022, 03:04:33 PM »
I have a funny feeling your glass is by Dema, ekimp.  :)
(I used to do the bric-a-brac for Oxfam and saw these regularly.)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/283705004389
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Re: Webb and Corbett Paperweight
« Reply #22 on: June 30, 2022, 03:46:16 PM »
Thanks, that’s interesting, well remembered :) The examples in your link have the same flower and look the same glass. Never heard of Dema before even though it looks like they were a large British company, some of their history here: https://www.chesterfield.gov.uk/explore-chesterfield/museum/past-exhibitions/touch-of-glass.aspx

So the printed type weights are also likely to be from Dema seeing as the printed flower is the same on both. Maybe they bought in Webb Corbett blanks to be printed.
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Re: Webb and Corbett Paperweight
« Reply #23 on: June 30, 2022, 04:33:29 PM »
I had some of those in the "olden days" LOL. Cheap and cheerful and transfer printed; you can see where there is a bit of transfer missing from one leaf. Dema blanks were made in Chesterfield

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Re: Webb and Corbett Paperweight
« Reply #24 on: June 30, 2022, 04:46:20 PM »
Yes, I only meant the paperweights blanks  :) There seems to be some connection anyway.
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Re: Webb and Corbett Paperweight
« Reply #25 on: June 30, 2022, 06:05:21 PM »
I'm really impressed you noticed it was the same design. That is harder than remembering a four letter name I was very familiar with.
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Re: Webb and Corbett Paperweight
« Reply #26 on: June 30, 2022, 06:39:34 PM »
Luck...at 20p I took the risk ;D
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Re: Webb and Corbett Paperweight
« Reply #27 on: November 12, 2022, 01:11:42 PM »
Here is another decanter with the same printed image as on Nev’s weight, depicting a women on horse back. You can see the whole thing rather than just the printing as on the collectors weekly example. Don’t know who made the decanter though.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144798492184?hash=item21b6a9a618:g:248AAOSwzeFjZ9fn&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoG963kl5Wb1jc6p7l377vnVka3K5U00hCC4ACVzhMczg3nLnA9LbWhpVx7Vm541VtZAnMIKA%2Bg%2FNdUebuap3MZDaA0CkUIl8vIOXuy1Jn%2B45tvysN1%2BN%2B97H41wjlfW7oMKGqWI%2Bfaz1i7i6gSRm04jjGic6HQ6oDaN2TQdRgonQD5KE01rERsk5OpluhMXzC6RV4jZ9%2FIqylCodOeZ%2FCTY%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR5qd6L2NYQ
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