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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: bat20 on September 12, 2014, 02:02:36 PM

Title: Old Chinese?
Post by: bat20 on September 12, 2014, 02:02:36 PM

Hi all pulled the trigger on this one hoping it was old Chinese ;D,i've got a few books on the way but in the meantime,any thoughts.many thanks.

Title: Re: Old Chinese?
Post by: Fuhrman Glass on September 12, 2014, 02:18:18 PM

Definitely Chinese . I bought many of these and resold them in the 80's, cost then was about $2.75-3.50ea.

Title: Re: Old Chinese?
Post by: bat20 on September 12, 2014, 02:47:46 PM

Thanks FG,did you buy them new?

Title: Re: Old Chinese?
Post by: Fuhrman Glass on September 12, 2014, 05:41:51 PM

Yes< bought them new. I think it was United Pacific Trading Co. San Francisco.

Title: Re: Old Chinese?
Post by: bat20 on September 12, 2014, 06:54:32 PM

Interesting FG,do you remember what they were called,i don't know if they were trying to copy anything else but they do have a Chinese/Japanese aesthetic,it was £7.00 posted so it may not have increased in price since the 80's ;)

Title: Re: Old Chinese?
Post by: paperweights on September 12, 2014, 07:05:40 PM

I call these Chinese dogwood paperweights.  It is nice to be able to put a timestamp on them.  I always thought they were earlier 1930s to 1950s.

Title: Re: Old Chinese?
Post by: incazzatonero on September 12, 2014, 10:16:55 PM

Chinese could be very nice like this weight.