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Title: SW signed swirl paperweight. ID = Sidse Werner, Holmegaard
Post by: bOBA on March 17, 2018, 03:04:31 PM

Hi everyone. I bought this paperweight in England the other day. It has been signed SW with other letters as well HG followed by another letter possibly an F. Also the number 5048. I am am really sure it is even English as the lettering looks slightly continental..... It has a swirl pattern and is about 7cm in diameter with a flat polished base....


Robert (bOBA)

Title: Re: SW signed swirl paperweight
Post by: KevinH on March 18, 2018, 02:48:10 PM

Hi Robert,

I can safely say that I have not seen another weight like this one - a "simple" swirl pattern but with carefully applied initials and numbers.

Hopefully somebody will recognise the weight or its features.

Title: Re: SW signed swirl paperweight
Post by: bOBA on March 19, 2018, 01:13:23 AM

Thanks Kevin, I was nearly hearing tumbleweed there! My thought it could be continental is encouraged by your not having seen it. Secondly, a bit of google detection and checking a GMB thread, yielded a suggestion that, of all places, Holmegaard appears to have used HG7 to denote a design from 1977 and the lettering style matches some examples too. .... rather than a P.L match I will now look for S.W. as a designer possibility.... glass is an unexpected thing at times.

Robert (bOBA)

Title: Re: SW signed swirl paperweight
Post by: rocco on March 19, 2018, 08:10:26 AM

Hi Robert,
that HG is definitely a Holmegaard mark
Sidse Werner? (I have a vase from her with the SW mark...)
Similarish paperweight here: http://www.hardernet.dk/Artglass/Werner,_Sidse_artglass_no_name_KHG_FG_1971-1989.htm (http://www.hardernet.dk/Artglass/Werner,_Sidse_artglass_no_name_KHG_FG_1971-1989.htm)

Michael

Title: Re: SW signed swirl paperweight ID=Holmegaard Sidse Werner
Post by: bOBA on March 19, 2018, 09:01:26 AM

Brilliant, thanks Michael. A 100 per cent attribution! Sidse Werner, Holmegaard it is.

Robert (bOBA)

Title: Re: SW signed swirl paperweight. ID = Sidse Werner, Holmegaard
Post by: PaulFitz on March 22, 2018, 05:49:18 AM

Here is my 8cm Sidse Werner paperweight signed  HG 9 SW 5048.  A beautiful and understated paperweight.

Title: Re: SW signed swirl paperweight. ID = Sidse Werner, Holmegaard
Post by: bOBA on April 14, 2018, 09:47:31 PM

Thanks Paul, it is nicely made and is better in person I think than a picture shows. News to me that Holmegaard made paperweights,

Robert (bOBA)