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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: kazleeb on July 25, 2010, 06:52:22 PM

Title: paperweight with flower and bubbles
Post by: kazleeb on July 25, 2010, 06:52:22 PM

hi,ive put this on because it is not as tacky looking as the one's i see on the market with flowers in,its 6cm tall,the glass is blue and clear and its flat on the front,the bubbles are in rows,the last pic is of the bottom,thanks kaz

Title: Re: paperweight with flower and bubbles
Post by: Wuff on July 25, 2010, 09:01:32 PM

Caithness Floral Year (2000 version): March - Primrose (http://www.scotlandsglass.co.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&category_id=28&product_id=2014&Itemid=6).

Just a bit surprising that it doesn't seem to be marked.

Title: Re: paperweight with flower and bubbles
Post by: kazleeb on July 25, 2010, 09:03:48 PM

thanks,looked again and no mark,kaz

Title: Re: paperweight with flower and bubbles
Post by: tropdevin on July 25, 2010, 09:37:31 PM

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Hi Wuff.  I had one a few years ago with no markings (could even be the same one, I suppose...). I think it came in a Caithness box, in a cloth bag?

Alan

Title: Re: paperweight with flower and bubbles
Post by: Wuff on July 25, 2010, 09:56:36 PM

I have seen quite a few copies of weights from the series - I guess Chinese, but cannot be sure; these would be unmarked. They all had fairly irregular bubble arrangements (other differences being more difficult to determine on often poor images) - which is why I am fairly sure the weight from kaz is genuine Caithness, just somehow escaping the marking. Just a rough guesstimate: 100'000 unlimited weights per year - makes some 400 per working day - there will always be the risk of a few slipping through.