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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: Cazza on May 22, 2008, 04:38:04 PM
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I think it could be Caithness but am not sure and if so does anyone know its name?
Thank you
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That looks like a Caithness seconds mark to me
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Yup, says CIIG, i.e. Caithness Glass 2nd!
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Not so fast. Caithness seconds were acid-etched with CIIC in much sharper and clearer, almost machine precise lettering. This looks hand-scratched as if to make it seem as if it were Caithness. Now would would anyone fake a 2nd? Because that's the only Caithness sig the scammer ever saw. So that made him/her think CIIC was the primary Caithness stamp. Now perhaps Caithness did hand-sign its seconds, but if it did, I have never seen proof of that. It was always a factory-defined stamp, not unlike Baccarat's seal, contemporary St. Louis, D'Albret, etc.
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Hi there Rainbowgirl
It does look like a Caithness weight to me, and probably a second as i can see a flaw, although the overall weight is very nice.
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Ive seen multiple obvious caithness weights hand etched with CIIG, the better ones which where hand signed seem to get this treatment when seconds.
Ian
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Can anyone recognise which Caithness design this would have been a second of? (I'm sure there's a less grammatically clumsy way of putting that, but you know what I mean! ::) )
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I've just looked through 625 Caithness bubble paperweights and concluded a side view would be helpful. To me it now looks like even more like Caithness, possibly Moon Crystal
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Christine is right to ask for another view of the weight. In fact, it would be best to provide a side view (straight on) and an oblique view (at 45 degrees looking at the top and side). The Charlton Catalogue shows various views - and even then, the photos do not always provide good recognition of all the designs!
But I agree that this is very likely a Caithness weight and that the CIIG in script, rather than etched, is not a problem. As a second, there may be something in the end result that is not too far off the original intention or there may be something quite a long way off. And if something is quite a way off the original design, a "swirl and bubble" weight can, fom certain angles, look rather like many others!
Also, what's the size of the weight?
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Bubbles and Abstract categories have gotten large! I need to subdivide them at some point, suggestions welcomed.
I have changed the browse view of bubbles so you get two across the page which speeds up searching.
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defo caithness in my eyes, C11G does mean a second , but some trial pieces that did not meet the production line were also marked this way