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Title: Is it my imagination, or has this weight been polished to death?
Post by: RescoCCC on March 29, 2014, 08:23:28 PM

The profile seems way too flat to me.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281296120424 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/281296120424)

What do you guys think?

Title: Re: Is it my imagination, or has this weight been polished to death?
Post by: pooleandpaperweights on March 30, 2014, 05:06:52 PM

Hard to tell, photo's don't really show the profile properly.  Looks Silesian to me, so could be pretty flat.  If it's in perfect condition, and I mean flawless, then I would have to suspect it has been polished, but wouldn't of said it had been done that much from those pics.

Ian

Title: Re: Is it my imagination, or has this weight been polished to death?
Post by: LesBeatiques on March 30, 2014, 05:23:09 PM

I was just thinking the same thing. Especially considering that not only this weight but several others the seller has listed look heavily polished.

I also agree with the Silesian / Bohemian origin.

Title: Re: Is it my imagination, or has this weight been polished to death?
Post by: tropdevin on March 30, 2014, 09:23:04 PM

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I agree it looks very polished. But I am not sure it is old...the glass looks to be quite good quality, and although the canes just might be Silesian, they look quite like some modern ones I have seen by Manson, Deacons, Caithness and so on. I think it might be Scottish, post 1970.

Alan