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Title: And the maker is...?
Post by: tropdevin on October 16, 2009, 09:22:16 PM
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The garland canes on this weight (http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&pub=5574631383&toolid=10001&campid=5335820906&customid=&icep_item=290359745209&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg) look like Caithness - but is it a Caithness weight?  Or Edinburgh Crystal, or Willie Manson, or...? Any views?

Alan
Title: Re: And the maker is...?
Post by: Wuff on October 16, 2009, 09:42:22 PM
Well - I would exclude Edinburgh Crystal: didn't do any millefiori weights, as far as I know, just commissioned them e.g. from Caithness (or later from Murano).

Caithness did several such millefiori miniatures, including a couple of bells, or a Christmas Lantern amongst others - why not a Christmas tree? Most were facetted - but if a design didn't make it into production (and this one looks a bit crude) it may well have ended up unfacetted and marked second (CIIG) in the factory shop.
Title: Re: And the maker is...?
Post by: alexander on October 16, 2009, 11:30:59 PM
Eh..there is a second picture on the listing showing a CIIG mark.
Maybe it was added after the post.

The lampwork feels like W. Manson to me.
Title: Re: And the maker is...?
Post by: tropdevin on October 17, 2009, 12:40:08 PM
Hi

I don't recall the second image being there when I made the post; I would not have asked the question if I had seen CIIG! But maybe I was not attending closely.

Alan
Title: Re: And the maker is...?
Post by: ALLAN on October 17, 2009, 01:56:41 PM
Hi All,
       yes we did make "Mini Christmas tree" weights and that is DEFINITELY a second if not a Third, :). It was around the time of all the other Christmas mini designs as I remember.I don't think we sold many of them as I do not remember it being a particularly popular design.
                                        Allan
Title: Re: And the maker is...?
Post by: Wuff on October 17, 2009, 04:53:33 PM
With Allan confirming the existence of a "Miniature Christmas Tree" I checked my image files again, the ones not yet online on Scotlandsglass, and found it: first issued in 1987. The "proper" ones are indeed facetted.