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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: keith on March 01, 2013, 05:47:53 PM
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Just under 3 inches high,has had a hard life looking at the base,page 377 in 20th Century British Glass 1930's weights by Albert Mattas,looks ok to me any opinions please, :o :o
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I would atribute to 1970s Murano myself.
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Thanks Roger,it is very similar to one of the weights in the book but as it was the vast sum of £3 I can't complain! ;D ;D
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Definitely Murano.
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Thanks,oh well I'll keep looking, ;D ;D
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It's no good,I have to ask why,the picture in the book is very similar,as a total novice in this field I need all the help I can get,do you think the attribution in Hajdamach's book is wrong ??? ??? ;D ;D
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Keith, the ones in the Hajdamach book are all typical of Bohemian / Czech examples with the convolvuls type flower heads formed with streaks (or patches) of white and colour but without millefiori canes.
For most of us, without a known provenance of the ones made at Thomas Webb, we would struggle to visually separate them from Bohemian / Czech. And Peter Von Brackel in his book on (mostly) European weights also adds Germany, Silesia and even Belgium (Val St Lambert) as sources of these types of weight.
Your weight has the flower heads formed with a translusent colour on a millefiori cane and the cane is very typical of the "coggy" look of Murano work.
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Thanks KevinH, still lots to learn, ::) ::) ;D ;D
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Hi.
There are some unusual Thomas Webb paperweights with a European influence. When I visited Broadfield House in mid 2007, by a lucky coincidence a couple came to the desk with paperweights to show to the staff. These were 'picture' weights, containing black and white photographic images fused onto a white sulphide plaque, all set in clear glass - a typical 'Czech' product. However, the pictures were of the grandparents of the man - and had been made by the grandfather, when he worked at Thomas Webb. A German glass worker at the factory had showed the technique for making them to his grandfather and other workers. See PCC Newsletter 94 (if you are a PCC member...).
Alan