Topic: Fountain style - CG cane I think?

[josordoni]

This had a label on the base saying it was a 19th century weight, (cough cough, err I don't think so...)

Base is polished and completely flat, no signatures/etched marks at all.  Some light wear.

But I think I can see a CG cane inside.  I haven't been able to find this design in my Caithness catalogues though - I don't suppose anyone recognises it please?

[josordoni]

Aha!  finally found it (ain't that the way of it?!) thanks Frank - it is a LOT easier to find things when they are split into shapes like you have on the Scotland Glass site. 

This is the double Harlequin from 1976. 

I wonder why it is unmarked?

[Frank]

Thanks for the feedback, very few have commented on ease of use - so it is good to know that we are doing it right.

[josordoni]

Have you seen any others with the CG cane but no base markings?

[KevinH]

Several (well, two to my immediate knowledge) Caithness designs had a CG cane and no other markings.

[josordoni]

Which ones are they, Kev?

[RAY]

how big is it Lynne?

[josordoni]

Hi Ray,

3.75 ins 95 mm tall, tad under 3ins 70mm diameter across the base

[RAY]

not the same as yours but the same shape http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,23642.0.html

[josordoni]

I'm not surprised really, from Scottish Glass I understand that it was designed by Paul Ysart, although produced by Peter Holmes. 

I have had other weights that were either early with a PH cane, or later with a CG cane, like this one, it was the lack of etching or engraving that threw me.