Topic: info required please

[lucky62]

Hi

Just discovered this item, in a local charity shop. Before I buy I just wanted to know if it is a good price to pay for such an object.  They are asking £75.  Is it a paperweight, is it Murano I wonder ?  there are no labels on the underneath but it is there is a number etched along with an initial and surname and is etched 6/250 also. Can't remember the name at the moment something cinarro or cirrano. and the flower is something ".....    oriente" 
When I asked about it in the shop they couldn't tell me anything about it except that it would be worth about £200. 

Your comments and thoughts would be gratefully received.

Thanks.

[chopin-liszt]

Bit of a google turns up Correia Class, and an image search on that (with paperwight added) does produce some things that have similar features.
There's a weight appears with a flower like that, and a hummingbird on a black background.

Welcome. 

ps. this is a link to an image of the hummingbird and flower one.
https://www.rubylane.com/item/466309-700x20309/Signed-Correia-Art-Glass-Hummingbird-Paperweight

[lucky62]

hi Sue,  thanks for replying and taking the time to search.  I've looked at the link but I just have a gut feeling this piece isn't correira.  Those pieces look 'clean' and modernist.  This piece seems to lack the iridescence of those.  I will go back to the shop to decipher the signature on the underneath.

I do appreciate your help, thank you.

[chopin-liszt]

To help decipher it, take a little talcum powder with you and rub a little over the engraving with your thumb. It will bring it up.
And it will come off again causing absolutely no harm!
I'm not really a paperweight person, I was just aware of a name a bit like your description.
There are others here who know a great deal more than I do about weights.
I'm sure somebody will be able to help you, but finding the correct name does help.

Reading what is written on glass is not always the easiest of things to do.

[lucky62]

Thanks Sue, that's some good advice. I will do that and with the help of a magnifying glass as well :-)


Graham

[glassobsessed]

It might be Orient and Flume.

One of their current weights here: http://www.orientandflume.com/Products/Calalily__2399.aspx

John

[lucky62]

Thanks John for your interest.  I've looked at the site.... although the design is similar, the name on the underneath is different to the two artists mentioned.

Graham