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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: Wuff on February 03, 2016, 01:13:42 PM
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What is this - just an unusually shaped paperweight - or is it meant to serve another purpose?
Height 11.5 cm / diameter stand 9 cm / diameter knob 6 cm / weight 695 g.
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;D
It looks like a meat tenderiser, but I'm sure it would hold paper down very effectively too.
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Thank you for the suggestion, Sue ... I guess the shape could have been copied, but would you use glass to make such an item? Also, the meat tenderisers I'm familiar with, have a "spiky" surface (base) - my item is polished flat, and shows no sign of wear at all (so it at least would never have been used).
I guess the next question cannot be answered before more is known about the purpose: where / by whom was it made?
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I wouldn't really like to use glass on meat. I don't want to eat broken glass. :-X
My guts think there is a hint of Beranek about it. :)
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It looks like a coffee tamper used to make espresso. However the recommend force needed for a proper tamp is 30lbs...Not sure I would want to be using glass when applying this much pressure.
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My guts think there is a hint of Beranek about it. :)
Beranek at least has a fish in their catalogue (http://www.refinex.cz/bg/catalogue/send.aspx?partnum=0&pk=614) with a yellow surface decoration of similar type and (as far as it can be told from images) colour, designed by Jan Exnar.
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I gave my brother an Skrodlovice Oliva pwt, which was a clear cube of glass containing a round orange sphere, with a spiral trail of black around it, and just one corner of the cube missing to expose that part of the sphere.
(Commercial images here;
http://www.zfolio.com/Ladislav-Oliva/Art-Glass-Paperweights-products
That might be another direction to look?
But Beranek do have form for bright primary colours with dark spirals.
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It would make a good darning mushroom, except I don't think people darn things anymore as they are more likely to throw things away instead.
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:)
Amongst the proliferation of charity shops, betting shops, pawn-brokers and loan sharks, clothing repair and alteration shops seem to be the only kinds of shops that are surviving on high streets at the moment.
People are getting clothes repaired again.
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May be way of the mark, look up glass smoothers. Wuff's example seems to be a modern version of these items. (maybe).
Tim