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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: josordoni on December 02, 2007, 01:23:45 PM
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Can anyone help with this "sea urchin" paperweight? When I bought it, I thought it was Mdina, but now I am uncertain. the colour of the ochre is much more yellow than the ochre in my other Mdina.
It is unsigned, smallish polished base. Glass is rather greeny yellowish.
Diameter just over 3 ins 80 mm.
I can't find anything similar in Mark's Mdina/IOW book.
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a gentle bump in case people were busy before?
thanks for any confirmation / help in ID ing this.
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Lynne, it does look very like a Mdina to me. Mdina yellows vary quite a bit. Sue was telling me the reasons (in eye-glazing detail >:D ) at the Dulwich glass fair on Sunday. However, I recently saw one like yours which was ID-ed as something quite different - however, I can't remember what! :-[
You need someone else to come along and tell you whether it's definitely Mdina. I'm afraid Sue's ME means she is likely to be flat out for a while after the stresses and strains of the trip to London and the Glass Fair. She wasn't even able to celebrate her 'special birthday' tomorrow, but went straight back home :'(
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Oh the poor lovely. I do hope some rest will bring her back to normal. It is a terrible thing ME, the slightest thing needs to have energy saved up for, and then the saved up energy doesn't last anywhere near enough to get over the exertion... I really feel for her. :cry:
Anyway, thank you so much for your input Leni, I shall just sit on this and wait and see if anyone recognises it. In the meantime it joins my Specials (the ones I am putting off selling because I like them too much ;D - I am waiting until the bank balance screams at me! ) and will be much admired over Christmas I expect.