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Title: paperweight ID if possible
Post by: saorsa on April 20, 2009, 05:09:17 PM

can someone please help me identify this facet cut weight

the signature cane appears  CS  With a lattice cut base  limited to 50

http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/3/6/4/7/9/7/webimg/256053597_o.jpg
http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/3/6/4/7/9/7/webimg/256053663_o.jpg
http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/3/6/4/7/9/7/webimg/256053702_o.jpg
http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/3/6/4/7/9/7/webimg/256053751_o.jpg

thanks  Greg

Title: Re: paperweight ID if possible
Post by: incazzatonero on April 20, 2009, 05:36:35 PM

Hi Greg!
Usually the signature cane CS  are saying :it is from Carolyne Marie Smith.
This indicated also the simple Lampwork.
It seemed to be from the middle 1970er.
I am not sure and I never have had a weight of her.
Lets wait, what the others are saying.
Regards

Title: Re: paperweight ID if possible
Post by: w84it on April 20, 2009, 06:43:58 PM

It does remind me of one of hers that I've seen, but can't find an image now.

Also similar to some made by Hugh Edmund Smith.   

Wasn't Caroline a close relation (wife?)?

Example of Hugh's work at
http://www.prices4antiques.com/decorative-accessories/paperweights/Paperweight-Smith-HE-Forget-me-Not-3-inch-C227169.htm (http://www.prices4antiques.com/decorative-accessories/paperweights/Paperweight-Smith-HE-Forget-me-Not-3-inch-C227169.htm)


Cheers
Keith

Title: Re: paperweight ID if possible
Post by: alpha on April 20, 2009, 07:39:41 PM

The flower is too three dimentional to be Carolyn Smith. There is an edition size etched onto the back which she never did. Are you sure the initials are not a "WM"? That is the way it looks from the rear shot photo.

Title: Re: paperweight ID if possible
Post by: saorsa on April 20, 2009, 08:09:38 PM

when viewed from the base side it reads MW irrespective which way the weight is held, so i take it it wont be a Willie Manson weight ?

Title: Re: paperweight ID if possible
Post by: incazzatonero on April 20, 2009, 08:47:51 PM

Hi Greg!
Isn't it a really different between CS an WM ??? :huh: :huh: :huh:

Title: Re: paperweight ID if possible
Post by: saorsa on April 20, 2009, 09:07:11 PM

I would certainly agree to that,,, however please look at the 2 pictures below of the same weight with a picture from the top and another from the bottom, and you can see how i was mistaken

now does a CS look like a MW ???    :24:


when pointed out you can now see that it is a WM cane after all .....  Well done Alpha   :hiclp: :hiclp: :hiclp: :hiclp:



http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/3/6/4/7/9/7/webimg/256053597_o.jpg
http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/3/6/4/7/9/7/webimg/256157418_o.jpg

Title: Re: paperweight ID if possible
Post by: alpha on April 20, 2009, 11:53:26 PM

The "MW" would be for William Manson. The "M" and "W" share a common leg and it looked like the cane had been smooshed on the front view, which as we have now seen can make a cane read completely differnetly. You can see grey lines and black lines in the front view but on the back view it's all black lines..

Title: Re: paperweight ID if possible
Post by: tamefox on April 22, 2009, 02:54:11 PM

I think it is 'Yellow Rose', 1995 release by WM, of which only 43 of the intended 50 were made.
Part of the Caithness Glass 'Traditional Collection'.
andy_n

Title: Re: paperweight ID if possible
Post by: saorsa on April 22, 2009, 04:07:24 PM

Many thanks Tamefox  :hiclp: