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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: glasstrufflehunter on October 17, 2008, 08:15:23 AM

Title: 1800, eh?
Post by: glasstrufflehunter on October 17, 2008, 08:15:23 AM

I do wonder where these folks are finding their expert info. This one prolly got theirs from the same person who told them it was a  pontil weight. (http://cgi.ebay.com/MILLEFIORI-PONTIL-GLASS-PAPERWEIGHT-1800S_W0QQitemZ110297699339QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item110297699339&_trkparms=72%3A1205|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14pontil)

Title: Re: 1800, eh?
Post by: pooleandpaperweights on October 17, 2008, 07:29:52 PM

Well, you can always send him a best offer, and he hasnt set an autodecline level so it can be as low as you like :)

Title: Re: 1800, eh?
Post by: glasstrufflehunter on October 17, 2008, 09:16:35 PM

He says he dug it out of an 1800s dump site. I wonder if he has the Brooklyn Bridge for sale too.

Title: Re: 1800, eh?
Post by: Frank on October 17, 2008, 09:20:03 PM

And yet another set of Paul Ysart's tools  ;D

Title: Re: 1800, eh?
Post by: aa on October 18, 2008, 09:22:43 AM

I don't know how these guys can get their facts so wrong. Anybody who knows anything about these things would know straight away that it is a rare sunflower paperweight by van Gogh! :)

Title: Re: 1800, eh?
Post by: Frank on October 18, 2008, 09:43:14 AM

Actually, the colours give the game away... they are clearly the regimental colours for the LXIVth Octavius Legion, perhaps this was unearthed in excavations at Pompeii - which would explain its superb condition.