Two rows of canes - straw-coloured corrugated tubes & aqua/white flower canes - encircle a carpet of white, star-centred single canes. Scattered around the carpet are 6 composite millefiori canes. The weight is finished with a circular top window and 5 side facets.Signed with a 1971 date cane. Ty..
An early single-cane carpetground over clear enclosed by white/ochre cog/star canes and corrugated aqua tubes. Set in the carpet are 4 pale-blue/white complex millefiori canes. The weight is finished with a circular top facet and 5 side facets.Signed with a white/blue 1971 date cane. Typical White..
A colourful, well set up 5-row concentric probably either from Arculus or Walsh-Walsh. The 5 rings of millefiori canes - 2 in shades of pale-green plus mid-blue, white and coral-pink frame a ruby/ white 16-toothed cog centre cane.The weight has a low dome. The base has a distinct ridge between the c..
A paperweight-related item - made by an, as yet, unidentified English factory - with colourful millefiori canes forming a slightly-domed cushion in the base. 5 rows of well made complex tube & ribbed canes in dark-blue, pale-green, pale & deep-pink, turquoise & white with cruciform and star centres ..
In the P25 pattern the miniature concentric in the centre is encircled by 6 slightly larger multi-ring concentrics - whereas in this variation on the standard version, there are only 5 - in shades of pink, lavender & green. The pistachio carpet ground is enclosed in a garland of dark-blue/white star..
A striking colour combination, a meticulous set up and a rare variation of the Paperweights within a Paperweight pattern P25 ! Usually there are 7 miniature concentrics in the centre. This unusual variation has just 3 miniature concentrics surrounded by 2 multi-cane rings (pink & ivory) and an outer..
An Allan Scott design for the Whitefriars Collection - “heralding the end of harsh Winter and the coming of Spring”. Two snowdrops are borne on stems together with narrow green leaves. The lampwork design is set over a cobalt blue ground. The weight stands upright on a small base and is finished wit..
A white 18-toothed cog cane - with a red, blue & white cross - centres this well made 5-row concentric produced, most likely, in one of the - as yet - unidentified English glassworks. The canes in the first three rows are slightly flared. The white, pale-blue & mid-blue crimps all have a cross in th..
An unusual single-cane closepack in just 2 colours - blue & white. In actual fact, some of the internal stars in the white-star canes have a pale-straw lining, but the overall effect is of blue & white canes over a clear ground. Cut with a top window and 5 side facets.Signed with a blue & white 1978..
Typical Whitefriars millefiori - multi-canes, bundles of fine rods, crimps, stars, tubes and single canes - in colours ranging from pale-pink, blue, green & lavender to red, purple & cobalt-blue - closely packed over a clear ground. The weight is finished with a large circular top window and 6 large..
Typical Whitefriars single-canes - in shades ranging from white, aqua & yellow to dark-green, lime-green, lavender & blue - closely packed over a clear ground. Incorporated in the set up is an unusual blue & white 1976 signature/date cane.5 + 1 faceting and the typical Whitefriars polished base with..
Bundles of fine greyish-lilac and pale-blue rods plus complex pink & white and blue & white star canes closely packed over a clear ground. Randomly scattered amongst them are single blue & white florets and purple & white corrugated canes with black star centres. Incorporated within the millefiori c..