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Title: tiny paperweight
Post by: SophieB on November 29, 2009, 07:47:35 PM

Hi,

I picked up this tiny paperweight (approx. one inch in diameter) from a local charity shop on Saturday. For some reason, my brain seems to recognise it as a Uredale glass paperweight (I have no idea where I would have picked up this information, though :huh:). However, it does not bear any resemblance with the wares that this glass studio makes at present. Can anyone provide an identification?

The profile of the weight may not be clear from the last picture: it is not properly domed but a bit flattened on top.

Also, the first picture is of the top and the second of the underside of the weight.

Many thanks.

SophieB

Title: Re: tiny paperweight
Post by: w84it on November 29, 2009, 09:30:48 PM

Chris Dodds of Tweedsmuir glass?    He produced small paperweights with abstract designs, but I've not seen this particular pattern.

Title: Re: tiny paperweight
Post by: Lustrousstone on November 30, 2009, 07:30:40 AM

Uredale uses an impressed glassblower, looks a bit like a Y

Title: Re: tiny paperweight
Post by: SophieB on December 01, 2009, 03:37:01 PM

Many thanks to Weightforit and Christine for your replies.

I think that I have solved my mystery, though  :hiclp:. I located a web address for Uredale glass and found that they sell little glass pebbles exactly like mine. May be they do not impress all their glassware with their glassblower mark. My pebble certainly does not have anything on the underside. 

I have added the url below for those of you who wish to have a look at their wares. They have some very nice glass bowls, plates and vases.

http://www.uredale.co.uk/index.htm

SophieB

Title: Re: tiny paperweight
Post by: Jews32 on December 17, 2009, 06:12:55 AM

looking really really closley at the base it has a very very slight concave although virtually flat but it sits only on the outer rim...

Title: Re: tiny paperweight
Post by: jamalpa36 on December 17, 2009, 09:02:18 AM

Has anyone considered that this is just the surplus glass removed during the process of cutting off the weight from the pontil.

Roy

Title: Re: tiny paperweight
Post by: tropdevin on December 17, 2009, 01:16:26 PM

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Good point Roy! It looks very like the little button that is trimmed off the top of a crown weight when the top is drawn together.

Alan

Title: Re: tiny paperweight
Post by: SophieB on December 28, 2009, 12:09:58 AM

Hi Roy, Hi Alan,

Good point but I do not think so. It resembles too much the Uredale's glass 'pebbles' that can be found on their website (in their small gifts section, not the paperweights one).

The little weight stroke a cord witrh me because I remembered seeing one somewhere before with a small 'Uredale glass' sticker.

Sophie

 

Title: Re: tiny paperweight
Post by: Anne on January 07, 2010, 04:14:09 AM

Not all Uredale is marked, I have an unmarked piece of theirs, and when I looked at these pebbles at a glass fair I seem to recall they weren't marked either.