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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: sverkern on February 22, 2007, 01:21:08 PM

Title: Need help to identify picture glass paperweight
Post by: sverkern on February 22, 2007, 01:21:08 PM

I own a nice paperweight. Pictures:
(http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/normal_brevpress.jpg)

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/brevpressbak.jpg

Diameter is about 7,5 cm (3 inches)
I bought it at an auction. I was lucky, didn't pay much.
Where was it made? What company?
When was it made? Underside doesn't have the usual scratches so I am afraid that it isn't so old.

Thank you in advance

Sverker Nyberg

mod: image converted to link

Title: Re: Need help to identify picture glass paperweight
Post by: Wuff on February 22, 2007, 01:38:43 PM

This will very likely be a Murano weight.
Recently a similar one was offered on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.ch/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110081658844 (http://cgi.ebay.ch/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110081658844)
stating that it had a label "J.M. Towne & Co" - likely just the shop where it was sold.

Title: Re: Need help to identify picture glass paperweight
Post by: KevinH on February 22, 2007, 03:05:20 PM

This is "Gemini" - one of the star signs. Made by Ferro & Lazzarini at Murano. These star sign weights were in regular production from, at least, 1977 to, at least, the early 1990s.

Anyone know if these are still being made - bearing in mind that the glass production of that company is now only continiued by the new company Eugenio Ferro (see here (http://www.muranopaperweights.co.uk/eugenio_ferro.html))?