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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: mildawg on June 27, 2014, 07:02:26 PM

Title: What am I missing here?
Post by: mildawg on June 27, 2014, 07:02:26 PM

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lovely-19thC-Paperweight-w-Purple-Blue-White-amp-Green-Canes-/221437599253?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item338eb59e15&nma=true&si=R8EtYdWaG%252BXpk%252Bx5LAx8UeZJtsY%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Is there something I am missing or did someone maybe pull the trigger a little to quick?

Title: Re: What am I missing here?
Post by: RescoCCC on June 27, 2014, 08:15:07 PM

Looks like an early English weight, perhaps a rare one?

Title: Re: What am I missing here?
Post by: Nick77 on June 27, 2014, 08:38:38 PM

Looks like Arculus/Walsh Walsh to me and not particularly special so the price realised is odd?

Nick

Title: Re: What am I missing here?
Post by: tropdevin on June 28, 2014, 05:53:11 AM

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Hi.  Nick is correct - an Arculus / Walsh Walsh piece, of modest quality, and not 19th century of course: it is early 20th century. I have seen paperweights offered before by this seller, and 'accurate description' is not the phrase that first springs to mind.   If I had been selling it I would have been very pleased with a sale price of US $195.00 - so someone has paid way over the top (or else my collection of Old English paperweights has gone up in value by a factor 4 overnight!).

Alan