Topic: A very nice looking Clichy ? paperweight

[mhgcgolfclub]

A very nice looking paperweight I think it looks like a Clichy.

Roy

[mildawg]

I'm looking at it on my phone so not the best to say but it looks like it could be whitefriars?

[tropdevin]

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Hi.  Is it possible to post a couple of close-ups of some of the canes?  The facets make it very difficult to see what is going on, and I think the clues to the ID will be in the canes.

Alan

[mhgcgolfclub]

Hi  Alan

Sorry I cannot post any other pictures. The paperweight is not mine but someone I know who lives in Switzerland sent the picture to me . Its on display in a castle somewhere in Switzerland.

Roy

[tropdevin]

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Hi Roy.

Interesting - a year or so ago a Swiss collector sent me some images of a different facetted paperweight filled with millefiori canes, not unlike your image in terms of overall impression. I got some close up images, and the canes were complex, well made, including some shard roses...but not like any with which I was familiar.  I don't think it is from the same source as yours, but odd that they both turn up in Switzerland. 

I wonder whether the one you show might be early Saint-Louis?  I have an early close-pack with fairly pale canes.

Alan

[mildawg]

St. Louis is a possibility. I don't think it is clichy though.

[Wuff]

Its on display in a castle somewhere in Switzerland.

Would it be possible to find out which castle?

[mhgcgolfclub]

Yes I can find out early next week exactly the location .

Roy

[mhgcgolfclub]

Hi

The paperweight was on display at Palazzo Castelmur Switzerland

Roy

[Wuff]

Thank you, Roy !

Now - Palazzo Castelmur is not the region I visit daily ;-) ... but has been put on the list for the next visit of the area.