Topic: Mdina Vase help with dating / any other information?

[mattglass]

Last try with some picture, no flash this time, taken outside in natural light.

[glassobsessed]

Those photos are better, they show it well. It reminded me of those wheel shaped weights too, perhaps they are mid 70s to early 80s.

[chopin-liszt]

Wrong number of indents for it to be the same mould! There are only 6 in the weights, - and agreed, the weights probably date to the mid-later '70s - although I very strongly suspect the clear and yellow crizzle ones (like the one I showed) are earlier than the reddy brown or blue ones.
What is also worrying me a little about being definite about the piece in question being very early is that they have been recently making a lot of stuff very similar to the very early work - there are now pwts with a big rough bark texture and they've been making a lot of (big) animals and dolphin-y things.

[mattglass]

I have a pair of the yellow crizzle type paperweights, and I always felt they were older than the blue ones I have.

The general wear on the base give me the impression it is an older piece, how old I have no idea though, I haven't handled too many 'early' pieces, unfortunately I started collecting more recently, so the prices for some of the earlier pieces are well over budget for me!

[chopin-liszt]

Not if they're strange ones such as this - because nobody is really sure what they are!
I am leaning towards this being an earlyish experimental sort of bit, mid-'70s. I would doubt it's as late as the '80s. But I could be wrong.