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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: CollectoMundi on March 30, 2020, 08:33:30 PM
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Please find as attachment two unsigned paperweights
both are purchased in Lille France and one has a retail sticker of a shop in Orléans.
Both are completely unsigned.
My guess would be Orient & Flume yet these are always signed. Any other guesses?
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I too personally doubt O&F as they seem to have marked very well. However, I do suspect a USA maker for at least the Yellow one, because the early paperweight makers in the USA studio movement were heavily into surface decoration - basically because they did not have the skills to create items with internal decorations. The second one could be much more modern and come from the far side of Asia.
I suggest you join a Facebook Group called "Paperweight Heaven" https://www.facebook.com/groups/paperweightheaven/. It has at least two very knowledgeable US collectors and they will be able in most cases to point you successfully. I suggest you send each as a separate post with three photos at least of the Pwt. One a general view like your first photos, second of the base from a little to one side (as for your yellow one), and a third taken from side on. You may also like to photograph the canes as details. IMPORTANT : the Facebhook groups have no restrictions on photographic size, so the bigger the better is the rule. Unlike here where you need to shrink to a size. Good hunting.
The first one looks to me like a USA maker in the 70s, and there were quite a few. It shows a proper pulled feather design for the lower half. Not saying it is any of these - however Stephen Smyers, Northern Star, Abelman, Lundberg, GES, Mount St Helens, Nourot, OBG(Ornamentam Blown Glass), Zellique, from my own collection had the skills to make it.
I have also collected images from Ebay and elsewhere that I am reasonably sure of the attribution - and I will mention some more possible suspects. Correia Studio, Vandermark, Mark Cantor, Carl Radke/Pheonix Studios, Don Richardson and finally Liberty Village. Don Richardson is not related to Cathy or Colin - they are far to recent.
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I've had several examples of this paperweight including one with a Murano paperweight. I believe that is what it is - from Murano. It doesn't have the same feel in hand as an O&F weight.
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Absolutely. Definitely Murano.
This is what I said in the other thread where these weights feature also.
CollectoMundi: have a look at the following items on Ebay:
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