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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: tropdevin on August 11, 2008, 08:39:16 AM

Title: ID Help
Post by: tropdevin on August 11, 2008, 08:39:16 AM

Can anyone decipher the inscription on this item (http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?type=2&campid=5335820906&toolid=10001&customid=&ext=320282796207&item=320282796207)?

Alan
Title: Re: ID Help
Post by: Lustrousstone on August 11, 2008, 11:24:08 AM
 Shona Spittal Caithness Glass, the date is 1986, 863/970 ?????
Title: Re: ID Help
Post by: Frank on August 11, 2008, 11:53:40 AM
She was still Shona Nicholson in 86.
Title: Re: ID Help
Post by: tropdevin on August 11, 2008, 12:08:42 PM

Thanks.  (I rather liked the idea of 'Shangri La' as a maker....)

Alan
Title: Re: ID Help
Post by: Frank on August 11, 2008, 12:33:10 PM
Seller also describes it as faceted, which Shangri-La (1987 ed 150) was, I don't see any facets nor is it the same design. Nor can I see it in Charlton or on SG so perhaps it is not CG?
Title: Re: ID Help
Post by: w84it on August 11, 2008, 06:59:27 PM
I can't decipher it, but could be a Selkirk signature.  Looks like Peter Holmes' 'writing' to me.   And there's a Shangri La listed for Selkirk in 1987 (in 'Paperweights from Great Britain') but sometimes Selkirk editions crossed two years or even more.
Title: Re: ID Help
Post by: Frank on August 11, 2008, 08:15:49 PM
Had Selkirk confirmed, thank you  ;) , 1987 Selkirk catalogue - edition 450, marked as new in 1987.
Title: Re: ID Help
Post by: pooleandpaperweights on August 14, 2008, 09:20:39 PM
Bahhhh my Dad beat me to it.  It is a Selkirk, I have one in my collection.

Ian