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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: Ben.unwin on October 22, 2015, 04:23:06 PM

Title: Base marked ID?! ID = Caithness (second)
Post by: Ben.unwin on October 22, 2015, 04:23:06 PM

I have this lovely paperweight, it is sort of signed with something on its base.
Any help of origin or maker would be lovely
Thanks in advance

Title: Re: Base marked ID?!
Post by: glassobsessed on October 22, 2015, 04:38:07 PM

CIIG is the mark Caithness Glass used for their seconds, it can be hard to see why some weights were not considered firsts.

John

Title: Re: Base marked ID?!
Post by: Hourglass on October 22, 2015, 08:58:42 PM

I think that their QC was pretty tight, it needed to be with some of their retail prices. Anyone collecting and interested in identifying CG weights by name, date of production and designer would do well to buy a copy of one of the many books available, do a Google search.

Title: Re: Base marked ID?! ID = Caithness (second)
Post by: daveweight on October 23, 2015, 10:24:08 AM

Caithness made many trial or experimental weights to get the design of the final item right, or just to play around and get new ideas, and rather than waste anything they marked these pieces CIIG and sold them off I their shop
Dave

Title: Re: Base marked ID?! ID = Caithness (second)
Post by: Hourglass on October 23, 2015, 06:10:40 PM

I always thought that any pre-production ones that didn't turn out right they destroyed and only after they put them into production that any not quite up to the QC standard were the ones that they marked C11G. ??