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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: tropdevin on May 11, 2008, 09:19:17 AM

Title: Peacock paperweight
Post by: tropdevin on May 11, 2008, 09:19:17 AM

I know that paperweights like this one (http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?type=2&campid=5335820906&toolid=10001&customid=&ext=280225974797&item=280225974797) are not Caithness, but Chinese, and that they come in several colours.  But does anyone know when they were made, or first appeared on the market?

Alan

Title: Re: Peacock paperweight
Post by: Ivo on May 11, 2008, 09:54:50 AM

I know they are made by Zibo Zhaohai in Shandong but i do not know since when. I talked to these people in 1999 on a trade fair, and they were definitely in the collection then.

Title: Re: Peacock paperweight
Post by: tropdevin on May 11, 2008, 10:12:10 AM

Thanks Ivo.  I didn't realise they were that recent. I'm sure they must have been producing them for some time.

Alan.

Title: Re: Peacock paperweight
Post by: Frank on May 11, 2008, 11:02:04 AM

I sent the seller a note that it was made by Zibo Zhaohai without mentioning China  >:D it will be interesting if he adds it to the auction.

Title: Re: Peacock paperweight
Post by: Frank on May 11, 2008, 05:15:35 PM

He added the note, I wonder what the impact on sales will be... considering it is broken anyway!

Title: Re: Peacock paperweight
Post by: RAINBOWGIRL on May 15, 2008, 02:09:32 PM

When I first began collecting paperweights, I had a couple of these Chinese peacock works. This would have been in the late 1970s; therefore, they go back at least that far. I would write that it is safe to call these 1970s paperweights, at least.