Hi Incassatonero
This is very strange - when I looked at the link you provide to German Ebay
from the UK the pictures of the weight showed up but not the description so
I had no knowledge that the seller had contacted Jim Hart. Interestingly if I
go into Ebay UK and then search on the ebay number then the description does show !
LesBeatiques - RE John Gooderham - John made mainly buttons and sub miniature
paperweights I have quite a collection of these and although he does use a heart
cane I have not seen an example where it is surrounded by cobalt blue. The
complex canes shown in the E-bay weight are a bundle of the same cane re-pulled
and again I have not seen this type of complex cane in any of John Gooderhams
weights. Also the heart cane was not his "trademark". For this he uses a "J" cane.
In the weight on E-bay the heart cane is VERY prominent in the base and is clearly
there as a signature.
If Jim says he did not make the weight, then we have to accept this which leaves two
possibilities - either someone got hold of a piece of Jims heart cane and incorporated
into his own weight or there is someone else out there using the same heart cane.
I know that Jim at one stage used Murano canes in his weights and there are plenty
of images on the internet of both Murano and chinese weights with heart canes.
Best regards
Derek
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