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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: chriscooper on January 30, 2012, 12:06:56 AM

Title: Iridescent paperweights
Post by: chriscooper on January 30, 2012, 12:06:56 AM

Bought these together the larger green one appears to have a more 'hammered' finish the smaller blue smoother, a friend on another site suggested Heron Glass?
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-UyES5Sboaio/TyPjtlxQNbI/AAAAAAAAVqQ/RK6gG4dV7vw/s576/SDC10279.JPG
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2BtduONtmvk/TyPkB6xC-SI/AAAAAAAAVk4/FvqwvKnLZ8c/s640/SDC10284.JPG
The smaller blue one.....
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NTKch_Kdm0A/TyXeiatcd6I/AAAAAAAAV0E/ZqcO0XyOY6Y/s576/SDC10290.JPG
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-OgcqIQs90Wo/TyPksjFUPaI/AAAAAAAAVmg/dsTgl-mDIEg/s640/SDC10294.JPG
Any suggestions Chris

Title: Re: Iridescent paperweights
Post by: keith on January 30, 2012, 12:23:38 AM

Hello Chris,your friends right,got one somewhere pretty much the same colour with a heron glass sticker ;D

Title: Re: Iridescent paperweights
Post by: chriscooper on January 30, 2012, 03:54:58 PM

Thanks Keith, would that be the large green one or the smaller blue? they are both quite different in the style of surface finish but the bases look similar.

Chris

Title: Re: Iridescent paperweights
Post by: keith on January 30, 2012, 07:11:24 PM

Sorry Chris,the first one I believe ;D

Title: Re: Iridescent paperweights
Post by: Sach on January 31, 2012, 12:43:15 PM

Quote from: chriscooper on January 30, 2012, 03:54:58 PM

Thanks Keith, would that be the large green one or the smaller blue? they are both quite different in the style of surface finish but the bases look similar.

Chris

They are both made with the same technique.  The difference is just in how long the frit and powder on the surface was melted into the piece.

Title: Re: Iridescent paperweights
Post by: chriscooper on February 01, 2012, 09:17:58 PM

Anne, getting dizzy following this thread ;D you moved it from general glass to British then to paperweights?
Yes they are glass, are we then saying then they are by a British maker?  the initial suggesting was Heron Glass.
Sach you say they are both made by the same technique but do you think they were made by the same hand?
So many questions and so little time eBay is calling  ;D

cheers Chris

Title: Re: Iridescent paperweights
Post by: Sach on February 01, 2012, 11:26:15 PM

Seems likely that they come from the same source but it's not proof.