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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: Wuff on March 27, 2010, 05:01:39 PM

Title: Caithness - unknown pattern
Post by: Wuff on March 27, 2010, 05:01:39 PM

Any comment on the following paperweight would be appreciated:
http://cgi.ebay.ch/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400110531251

Title: Re: Caithness - unknown pattern
Post by: chrisc on March 27, 2010, 11:43:52 PM

I emailed the seller who confirmed there is nothing whatsoever on the base of the paperweight.  However, from the pictures it does look like Caithness.  Perhaps a trial weight?

Title: Re: Caithness - unknown pattern
Post by: paperweights on March 28, 2010, 02:08:37 AM

It looks like a variation of the Strathearn Tropic design.

(http://paperweights.com/pw2440sm.jpg)

http://paperweights.com/pw2440.jpg (http://paperweights.com/pw2440.jpg)

Title: Re: Caithness - unknown pattern
Post by: Wuff on April 04, 2010, 02:04:17 PM

After talking to several people (off the list) the present assumptions are summarised as follows:
It is Caithness - but likley not Colin Terris.
It is neither Alastair MacIntosh nor Helen MacDonald.
It is Helen's cutting design, though - and therefore likely facetted by Martin Murray.
The entire weight might be Martin Murray.
Could be a design study (not selected for production), an event piece, or just a 'homer'.

Any further comment would be appreciated.