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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: Wuff on November 21, 2009, 10:01:19 AM

Title: Help with ID, please
Post by: Wuff on November 21, 2009, 10:01:19 AM

Any comments on this (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280423929370) weight? Many of the other weights offered by this seller are Scottish.

Thank you and best regards - Wolf

Title: Re: Help with ID, please
Post by: keith on November 21, 2009, 11:30:49 AM

In my limited knowledge of weights and my own pieces most pwt's from Scotland usually have a base,ground colour,this one doesn't so I'd see what the experts say,Keith.

Title: Re: Help with ID, please
Post by: glasstrufflehunter on November 21, 2009, 12:19:07 PM

The canes are not familiar to me but the wobbly edge of the arrangement, shape and finishing look Italian to me.

Title: Re: Help with ID, please
Post by: alexander on November 21, 2009, 10:27:46 PM

Murano imho.

Title: Re: Help with ID, please
Post by: KevinH on November 22, 2009, 01:36:19 AM

The eBay weight has some similarity to a reference example that I have:

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-11180
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-11179

I bought it from a friend who was told by the person he bought it from that it was Scottish. It is not Scottish. It's Murano. But actual maker and period is not known.

The central cane of the eBay weight, the "star/cog in outer sleeve" canes, the rather untidy setting of the concentric rings and the long and uneven canes are similar to mine - and to other Murano weights that do not have the more often seen "very coggy" canes.

Title: Re: Help with ID, please
Post by: Wuff on November 22, 2009, 08:08:43 AM

Thank you to all for your comments - Wuff