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Title: Help me identify this acid etching on a Caithness Fireball paperweight
Post by: Fox1970 on February 27, 2016, 02:12:00 PM

I am having alot of trouble identifying this etching on a Caithness Glass "Fireball" paperweight. Made in Scotland. This piece had a very old label, with the typed info of what the item is. Once removed, I found this etching. Other pieces of this type have very different etchings, so I'm confused. Is this their logo? Does it pre-date the ones that have their named etched in, with a Limited Edition Number? Please help!!!???

http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j359/timfox116/Caithness%20Paperweight%20Markings/20160227_070736_zpsxalwqydr.jpg

http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j359/timfox116/Caithness%20Paperweight%20Markings/20160227_070725_zpsbfynfzdf.jpg

http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j359/timfox116/Caithness%20Paperweight%20Markings/20160226_172938_zpseqno4qdr.jpg

Title: Re: Help me identify this acid etching on a Caithness Fireball paperweight
Post by: Anne on February 27, 2016, 04:50:57 PM

Hello and welcome to the board. I'm moving your post from Events (which is just to post info about events) to Glass Paperweights, which is the proper forum for this item. 

We'd also appreciate it if you would add your images as attachments to your post rather than as linked images - two reasons for this...

1. the huge images give problems to people who use mobile devices as they cannot choose not to download them, thus it eats into their data transfer allowances, and

2. having images permanently on the board helps us to be a really useful reference source for others who come to us looking for help. Remote images tend to disappear after time, whereas on the board they are here in perpetuity.

We have a help topic that explains how to reduce your images to a size that will fit our limits, or one of the Moderators can copy them into your post as attachments with your consent if you prefer. http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,34093.0.html

Title: Re: Help me identify this acid etching on a Caithness Fireball paperweight
Post by: Lustrousstone on February 27, 2016, 05:19:44 PM

That looks like a bad version of the Caithness seconds mark CIIG

Title: Re: Help me identify this acid etching on a Caithness Fireball paperweight
Post by: chopin-liszt on February 27, 2016, 05:22:08 PM

I suspect from what I was able to make out from the images that the mark you are looking at might well read CIIG, the mark used to signify a second.
C and G for Caithness glass and the II in roman numerals for 2.
Welcome to the board,  :)

and thanks Anne, for sorting the post. :-*

Edited to add;
Posting at the same time with the same thought, Your Editorialshipness ;)

Title: Re: Help me identify this acid etching on a Caithness Fireball paperweight
Post by: tropdevin on February 28, 2016, 05:28:45 PM

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I agree it is the Caithness seconds mark.  Someone may have stuck the label over the mark to try and hide the fact, and pass it off as perfect - much the way that you can find a price label or auction lot number obscuring a bruise on a paperweight.  That does not happen very often, but it does happen.

Alan

Title: Re: Help me identify this acid etching on a Caithness Fireball paperweight
Post by: chopin-liszt on February 28, 2016, 05:47:59 PM

Hi Fox,
Would you, pretty please, post the images directly to the board? There is a load of info in that link I gave you to help.
Photobucket crashes my pc, I won't go there or click on any link to it, and images hosted elsewhere have a nasty habit of vanishing.
It would be really good for our records to have an image of this mark you have, posted here for future reference.