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Title: blue swirl paperweight, looking for maker any ideas please?
Post by: Cazza on July 17, 2007, 09:18:01 AM

   

Can anyone id this paperweight please, I am usless at them? ???


http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-7909

Thanks  :D

Title: Re: blue swirl paperweight, looking for maker any ideas please?
Post by: Sue C on July 17, 2007, 10:53:02 AM

Are there any marking's on the base? if not, i would say Uredale glass.

Title: Re: blue swirl paperweight, looking for maker any ideas please?
Post by: Cazza on July 17, 2007, 10:58:35 AM

Hi there Sue
No marks, it looks quite a nice on though. :D
thank you for your help

Title: Re: blue swirl paperweight, looking for maker any ideas please?
Post by: Sue C on July 17, 2007, 11:04:48 AM

Hi Cazza, Uredale make some lovely glass www.uredale.co.uk  pretty little weight BTW

Title: Re: blue swirl paperweight, looking for maker any ideas please?
Post by: josordoni on July 17, 2007, 11:24:49 AM

Cazza, is this the base to your weight?

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-7909

if so, I can see a Kerry or IOW flame mark in the middle?

If not, which weight is it for?

Title: Re: blue swirl paperweight, looking for maker any ideas please?
Post by: Cazza on July 17, 2007, 12:07:28 PM

Hi josordoni
You are right there is a mark but I did not know it.  I thought it was where it was broken off. But now you have said the flame mark yes that is what it is. Is Kerry IOW any good, as I said before is looks a nice item to me. ;D

Title: Re: blue swirl paperweight, looking for maker any ideas please?
Post by: josordoni on July 17, 2007, 07:52:40 PM

It is a nice maker - Isle of Wight (see here  (http://www.isleofwightstudioglass.co.uk/PW_Collection.htm)for more details) is regarded as being the better maker, (for better read slightly more expensive) , Kerry Glass was a short lived venture in Ireland from the same makers, but this particular style is still current, fairly common and whilst decorative isn't regarded as particularly cherishable.

But I like the swirls! 

Title: Re: blue swirl paperweight, looking for maker any ideas please?
Post by: Cazza on July 17, 2007, 08:05:50 PM

Many thanks for your help Lynne, I am a learner as you probably know.  :D And I do not know what I would do without this place. And I learn't about Kerry IOW glass today!! I am well pleased.
Carol