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Looking for info on 4 unrelated paperweights
Ekimp:
Hi, welcome to the forum Buddman.
--- Quote from: Lustrousstone on October 06, 2023, 08:29:03 AM ---the millefiore one is Chinese late 20th C
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I don’t know much about weights but isn’t the Chinese millefiori actually an earlier one, pre 1940? I would keep that one.
See seventh one here: https://www.paperweights.com/paperweights/chinese.htm , direct link to the photos of that: https://www.paperweights.com/paperweights/images1/pw1002.jpg
And:
https://www.pwts.co.uk/pages/Chinese%20older%20paperweights.htm
buddman:
--- Quote from: chopin-liszt on October 06, 2023, 04:34:52 PM --- :) 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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you might be pushing the limits of my detective skills. The pontil is still rough-ish, and its still clearly "round" - I can run my fingernail all around it an feel its crisp edges, so it doesn't look to have a ring.
Can you access a video link on these forums? https://i.imgur.com/8YNACJT.mp4
buddman:
--- Quote from: Ekimp on October 06, 2023, 04:41:32 PM ---Hi, welcome to the forum Buddman.
I don’t know much about weights but isn’t the Chinese millefiori actually an earlier one, pre 1940? I would keep that one.
See seventh one here: https://www.paperweights.com/paperweights/chinese.htm , direct link to the photos of that: https://www.paperweights.com/paperweights/images1/pw1002.jpg
And:
https://www.pwts.co.uk/pages/Chinese%20older%20paperweights.htm
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Thanks for the input :-)
chopin-liszt:
I can access your video and it shows exactly what I need to see. It's wonderful, thank-you! 8) ;D 8)
It has not been heat treated, the "ring" around it I thought I saw was created by the illusion created in a 2D photo of the chipped edge of the round bit.
It is just a very neatly snapped off piece.
Perthshire and some other Scottish weights have had the heat treatment used on their scars, and I'm familiar with what those look like.
Lustrousstone:
Re the Chinese one, the colours are brighter and cane slices are thicker than I would expect for pre 1940 one (middle and later here https://www.pwts.co.uk/pages/Chinese%20older%20paperweights.htm), but even the older ones don't have that much value
The blue one I suspect is somebody's effort at a paperweight lesson, perhaps at Teign Valley Glass form the way the pontil mark is indented
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