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buddman:
Hello.  I imagine you get these types of questions all the time.  Sorry.  By neighbour died a few months ago and her house is being emptied this weekend by a clearance company.  Her son has told me I can help myself to anything left in the house. There were these 4 paperweights on a shelf and before they get thrown away, I thought I would just check if they were anything worth saving.  The milifiori one looks nice to my uneducated eye.  My neighbour was not a person of any means and didn't have valuable things in the house. She did however travel Italy many many times on holidays and had friends there, so I thought maybe some could be Italian.

The first one is the largest, 7cm tall x 6.2cm wide
The milifiori is 4.2cm high and 5.5cm wide.
The orange swirl is 4.3 x 5.2
and the final blue swirl (which looks cheap to me!) is the largest 6 cm x 7.5

Thanks in advance for any info or advice you can provide.

Buddman

buddman:
And here are the bases.  The first 3 have polished bases and the last one is sort of unfinished? and is not polished. 

Lustrousstone:
The blue controlled bubble one is likely Czech and sold under the Jaffe Rose label, the millefiore one is Chinese late 20th C, and the red, yellow and white one is mid-late 20th C Indian. They have little value. The blue one is the most interesting, so we need a base shot please

buddman:
Thanks for the information and for taking the time to reply. 

Here are some pics of the blue one. The base is concave and has an unpolished pontil.

chopin-liszt:
 :) Does the pontil scar have a sharp edge across it? It looks as if it might have been heat treated to remove the sharp edges. That often leaves a neatish round ring about the scar, and I can see something that looks like that in your first base pic.

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