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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: SophieB on May 26, 2010, 10:53:11 PM
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Hi there,
I am quite partial to Selkirk weights and I own a few. However, I have just realised that I have never seen a Selkirk second quality weight, yet (or so I think :huh:). I have looked it up in my (limited) literature but cannot find an answer.
So, does anyone know what was Selkirk glass' policy with regard to second quality items? Did they get destroyed or were they sold? Were they marked? And if so, how?
Many thanks.
SophieB
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I'm fairly sure that seconds (fairly high quality) were sold in the shop next to the glassworks, and my recollection is that they were unmarked.
David
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I think Sophie is correct.
I visited Selkirk Glass very shortly before it closed, and had the opportunity to make 3 paperweights (sadly, the company closed before my annealed paperweights could be sent, so they were sold by the administrators along with the many, many unfinished weights in the workshop area). I was told that very few weights were destroyed unless they were cracked or badly misshapen. Some 'seconds' were for sale (unmarked) in the Visitor Centre shop when I was there - but I am not sure whether that was the only outlet.
Alan
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Many thanks to you both.
I was trying to confirm what I suspected all along.
Alan, what a shame about your weights!!!
SophieB
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Hi Sophie
Yes - a shame. They were not wonderful lampwork or millefiori (such as I made with Willie Manson - or so I like to think). They were all attempts at 'Bohemian ice-pick flowers', which I was interested in, and found challenging (!), and I would really have liked to see as finished products.
But at least I did not lose my job as a result of the closure.
C'est la vie!
Alan