Topic: Whitefriars/ Caithness No 11.

[vintageartglass]

Hello,

I recently bought a small oddment of a 20th century glass collection as I wanted one of the paperweights among it to add to my collection of rare British paperweights.

I am finding it very difficult to research a few of the items in the collection, as I have found the same objects to be attributed to several different makers / nationalities, mostly czech or murano and I am unsure which to believe and it has been difficult to find a definitive answer.

I am hoping there will be some assured expertise here to help me to identify these vases with more certainty.

[SophieB]

Hi there,

I am not particularly knowledgeable about Whitefriars or Caithness paperweights but I do not think that it is from either factory.

However, the canes look Whitefriars (but not the set up or the ground) and I wonder whether it could be the work of Ray Annenberg who worked at Whitefriars until the factory's closure and who has produced paperweights with Whitefriars millefiori canes since then.

A nice weight anyway and I am sure someone else with more info will come along on the GMB soon.

SophieB

[Lustrousstone]

Pictures of whole items including base shots and profiles would also be helpful. Dimensions too rather than just copy and paste the same text

[tropdevin]

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Here is another possibility: Alastair Ross made some paperweights at Pairpoint using Whitefriars canes - I have a couple of them, bought at Pairpoint shortly after Alastair died. They are not signed in anyway.

Alan.