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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: Tony G on March 04, 2012, 03:48:31 PM
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Hi All,
firstly, please excuse my ignorance but before today I had never heard of glass paperweights from Russia!! I bet I'm in a small minority but better to learn later than not at all.
Bonhams November sale of glass and paperweights had a number of "Russian paperweights" at BIG prices. I would love to hear from the experts about this area that has passed me by.
Cheers
Tony
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Hi Tony.
Russian paperweights (and related items) are rare. About half the known examples in the world were sold in that Bonhams sale! You can still browse the on-line catalogue to see the images. Some of the plaques and paperweights were made at the Maltsov factory around 1900, and the others may well date to the same period. I don't think anyone knows which other factories might have been involved. In the past, most of the plaques and flowers were attributed (wrongly) to Mount Washington.
There was a short article about the Maltsov plaques and paperweights (including a copy of the original catalogue page) in the April 2011 issue of the Paperweight Collectors Circle Newsletter. I have written an illustrated account of the Bonhams sale for the April 2012 issue, and I am working on a talk which includes information about Russian paperweights.
Alan
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Hi Alan,
thanks for your very informative reply. I will look forward with great interest to your piece in April's newsletter and of course your talk at some future PCC meeting.
Cheers
Tony
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For general interest, Bob Hall's World Paperweights: Millefiori & Lampwork (ISBN 0-7643-1349-5) has a short but representative section on Russian weights and related objects.