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Title: ID please of Lizard paperweight. ID = Chinese
Post by: jove14 on February 18, 2016, 09:09:25 AM

Hi.
I know it's probably Chinese but I liked it so I bought it, so it will live in my cabinet.
Green lizard with smaller nicer eyes than on some other Chinese lizard weights I have seen but does have lots of air bubbles mainly on the Lizard.
It measures approx. 2 inch high.
Can someone please verify it's origin.
Thank you in advance for looking.
Joe.

Title: Re: ID please of Lizard paperweight
Post by: Lustrousstone on February 18, 2016, 12:06:50 PM

Looks Chinese to me

Title: Re: ID please of Lizard paperweight
Post by: KevinH on February 18, 2016, 04:45:58 PM

Yes, Chinese.

Title: Re: ID please of Lizard paperweight. ID = Chinese
Post by: chopin-liszt on February 18, 2016, 06:56:37 PM

These lizard ones were sold as new goods in the Heart Foundation charity shops, wa-aay back in the early 2000s. They can be rather nice and I've seen them selling in the secondary market for the same price as they were originally, £4.99.

If you can sell something for the same price as it was bought new, 10 years later, you're doing grand.
My brother still keeps the one I gave him wa-aay back then, in his bathroom.
A nice piece of glass is forever a nice piece of glass, no matter where or when it was made, or who made it. :)

Title: Re: ID please of Lizard paperweight. ID = Chinese
Post by: jove14 on February 20, 2016, 10:56:13 AM

Hi, Sue.
Thanks for the info.
It will find a new home with me for a while, a bit more for the cabinet.
Joe.