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Title: Please help ID : old english???
Post by: incazzatonero on August 27, 2014, 07:55:21 AM

www.ebay.de/itm/Paperweight-Briefbeschwerer-aus-Glas-mit-eingeschmolzenem-Motiv-Frauenkopf-/390898719737?pt=Glas_Kristall&hash=item5b03611bf9

It looks old english.
Any Opinions?

Title: Re: Please help ID : old english???
Post by: tropdevin on August 29, 2014, 06:58:57 AM

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Hi.  Nothing about it suggests Old English to me. I have not seen an Old English paperweight with a sulphide of this type - the only sulphides I have seen are in green glass dumps. I suspect it is a Belgian piece, of fairly poor quality.

Alan