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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: tropdevin on March 18, 2011, 10:27:48 PM

Title: Eastern dolphins
Post by: tropdevin on March 18, 2011, 10:27:48 PM

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Isn't this paperweight (http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&pub=5574631383&toolid=10001&campid=5335820906&customid=&icep_item=300522541185&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg) a run-of-the-mill modern Chinese? Or have I got it wrong?

I'm all for giving to appropriate charities, but...

Alan

Title: Re: Eastern dolphins
Post by: KevinH on March 18, 2011, 11:16:40 PM

Well, it is a BIG one, and it does have SIX (not five as per the description) dolphins and no less than TWELVE fish and you also get a coloured "fountain spray" as well as the often seen white one. So it's better than the usual "run of the mill" ones. But yes, the BIN price is optimisitic!

Title: Re: Eastern dolphins
Post by: Roger H on March 24, 2011, 08:59:55 PM

         An interesting weight is it not, the fish at the bottom are really very good for what seems to be a chinese weight according to the base,almost as if someone has purchased some first grade Murano torch work fish and taken them to China and encased them in what is a reasonably decent item. Regards Roger H.

Title: Re: Eastern dolphins
Post by: daveweight on March 25, 2011, 01:04:49 PM

I saw several of these weights on sale in a gift shop while on holiday in Cornwall last year and there were priced around £14 or $22, They are definitely Chinese
Dave