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Title: 1910 Whitefriars paperweight bottle ?
Post by: tropdevin on June 03, 2009, 09:04:59 AM

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I do not think that this bottle (http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&pub=5574631383&toolid=10001&campid=5336261829&customid=&icep_item=110397980733&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg) is a Whitefriars piece. It looks like the Chinese pieces that sometimes emerged from Murano.  Any views?

Alan

Title: Re: 1910 Whitefriars paperweight bottle ?
Post by: jamalpa36 on June 03, 2009, 09:17:29 AM

I agree with you Alan, this is not Whitefriars and the canes look Chinese to me

Roy

Title: Re: 1910 Whitefriars paperweight bottle ?
Post by: johnphilip on June 03, 2009, 10:33:01 AM

I would say % not W/Fs but they are old i have been using one as a doorstop for at least 30 yrs .jp

Title: Re: 1910 Whitefriars paperweight bottle ?
Post by: tropdevin on June 03, 2009, 11:56:49 AM

The tiitle has now been changed from '1910 Whitefriars' to 'Stourbridge'. I have never seen Stourbridge canes like that!

Alan

Title: Re: 1910 Whitefriars paperweight bottle ?
Post by: KevinH on June 03, 2009, 03:30:43 PM

I have sent the seller the following:

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Please note that although bottles like this one have often in the past been thought to be "old English", they are of Chinese origin. The millefiori canes are typical of Chinese work and the blue-white-red cane in particular is still found currently in lots of papeweights etc from known Chinese sources.

Kevin H
Paperweights and coloured glass collector