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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: tropdevin on December 29, 2009, 05:53:00 PM

Title: If only...
Post by: tropdevin on December 29, 2009, 05:53:00 PM

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If only this paperweight (http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-53481-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&pub=5574631383&toolid=10001&campid=5335820906&customid=&icep_item=180450420769&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229508&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg) were Baccarat  (rather than Chinese) I would be much better off!

Alan

Title: Re: If only...
Post by: keith on December 29, 2009, 06:57:24 PM

Me to,I've got two!

Title: Re: If only...
Post by: johnphilip on December 29, 2009, 07:09:08 PM

I have a few round my fish pond with my Seguso birdbath . >:D :chky: Flash Arry .

Title: Re: If only...
Post by: tropdevin on December 29, 2009, 07:11:18 PM

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Sadly, the seller tells me he has a letter to go with it proving the identity as Baccarat, and will relist with the 'proof'. Oh dear....

Alan

Title: Re: If only...
Post by: keith on December 29, 2009, 09:17:13 PM

What if he's right and we're all wrong?was that a winged mammal of the family Suidae swooping low over my house?

Title: Re: If only...
Post by: tropdevin on December 29, 2009, 09:31:01 PM

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I guess they would be Sus Volans?

Well, I told the seller very politely that even having a letter of authenticity did not make it a Baccarat weight, but I got a rather brusque response.  Maybe the seller needs advice from a few more collectors...

Alan

Title: Re: If only...
Post by: keith on December 29, 2009, 10:16:36 PM

Mmm..dans ses reves peut-etre porcs volen? excuse any mistakes,Keith.

Title: Re: If only...
Post by: Frank on December 31, 2009, 10:26:26 PM

The Baccarat Scandal - Royal no less  :24:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230416938797

Title: Re: If only...
Post by: KevinH on December 31, 2009, 11:12:27 PM

Hmmm - tenuous link there, Frank! The Royal Baccarat Scandal was about cheating at the card game See this Wiki link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Baccarat_Scandal) for (presumed reasonable) info.

A good story, though, based around a set of three paperweights and intrigue set within a background of emporers and revolutions, is: The Curse of the Imperial Paperweights, by George N. Kulles. The paperweights were said to be special one-offs made at St Louis (rather than Baccarat - so another tenuous link there :)) after the factory had ceased its normal 19th century paperweight production. All who came into contact with the paperweights died in mysterious circumstances. It's a good read with a better, and more plausible, mystery than any of the Chinese-turned-into-Baccarat paperweight ones.

Title: Re: If only...
Post by: mhgcgolfclub on January 02, 2010, 08:03:40 PM

I thought I had a Baccarat for a while with lots of little chips

Roy

Title: Re: If only...
Post by: Frank on January 02, 2010, 09:39:26 PM

Quote from: tropdevin on December 29, 2009, 09:31:01 PM

Well, I told the seller very politely that even having a letter of authenticity did not make it a Baccarat weight....

It will probably help it get a good price though  ::)

Let Roy know if they do list it that way so he can get a copy of the cert.  :-[