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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: luckysmom on February 13, 2014, 12:34:10 AM
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Has Sig on bottom, looks like an L...
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Hi Steph
I don't think these can be easily attributed to a maker, they are not hand made and are made in many thousands for the gift market. The glass is placed in a device which has two lasers at 90degrees to each other. They then move following a computer programme firing tiny laser bursts, where the two meet a tiny crack appears in the glass, following the programme they create the image.
Mostly they seem to be rectangular or square rather than round as yours is. In A previous business I had I could get these made with company logos in for business gifts fairly cheaply.
Nick
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Hey Nick Agreed, I see these laser etched type weights all over, but this one is a bit curious because it shows light yellow signs of aging.
When I bought it I had a difficult time determining wheteher it was frit, or just an amzingly clear laser etch?!
Its quit hard to see the discoloring in the light....
So yes I think it could very well be laser etched, but Nick, I keep having this intuitive hunch that tells me it may not be what it seems....
I might try differant picture to give you better idea of why i keep coming back to this odd ball frog
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Hi Steph,
It's definitely laser etched, I've watched being created, there would be no way of suspending glass frits in that manner and encasing them in glass. The yellowing is probably just a poor glass mix rather than aging.
Nick