Rare L. E. PERTHSHIRE Millefiori Christmas Silhouettes 1981 Paperweight

  
PERTHSHIRE Millefiori "Christmas Silhouettes" 1981 Paperweight. This is a stunningly beautiful rare vintage Limited Edition Perthshire paperweight made in Scotland, 1981. Made and produced for Christmas, the weight features a millefiori of five coloured silhouettes over an emerald coloured ground. The silhouettes include a Christmas tree, Santa, Sleigh, Church and a Reindeer. There is a lace garland of canes around the centre edge and a circle of lace canes at the centre.

Produced by Perthshire of Scotland. The paperweight comprises of four layers of pink petals set in clear glass forming.

A large upright Dahlia blossom. The top of the paperweight is concave and there are four oval windows around the body of the weight.

The paperweight is a beautiful and extremely rare limited edition and of an extremely high quality, making it a wonderful and very decorative paperweight. The paperweight is fully marked with the signature date cane being embedded in the concave polished base "P1981" and still retains the original paper label "Perthshire Paperweights Crieff Scotland" all of which indicates that this was made at the Perthshire glassworks factory. A wonderful paperweight composed of such stunning and delicate intricate design, making it perfect for any collectors of glassware, a wonderful addition to any decorative pottery, ceramics or glass collection. The paperweight is in excellent used vintage condition complete with the original presentation box, the box which does show some signs of age and storage, including some rubbing to the outer front and outer back right-side corner of the box. Please see photographs for condition, if you require further photos please ask :. From a Pet/Smoke free home. Thank you for looking x x.

A Little Bit About Perthshire Paperweights.. Perthshire created some of the most exquisite, high quality paperweights of the twentieth century. Perthshire began in 1968 by Stuart Drysdale in Crieff, Scotland. The company's first workers came from Vasart Glass and Strathearn Glass in Scotland and included John Deacons, who would later open his own company, and Peter McDougall, who made beautiful millefiori weights with the smallest of canes in his designs. Jack Allan, who worked under Salvador Ysart, also joined Perthshire and became its foremost glass maker.

Perthshire also produced weights in the lampwork style, creative fruit weights as well as flower weights. Since 1972, Perthshire used silhouette canes in the Baccarat style. Most pre-1979 Perthshire weights have a "P" to designate the company and the year it was made. For example, a paperweight might be signed P1970.

His small canes were very detailed, showing every star and flower inside the cane. Some of the weights also have fluted edges, making them quite decorative. He would also combine pastel colored canes with ribbons twisted throughout the weight design, achieving a stunning effect. Some of the paperweights had a cobalt blue background, possibly in the style of Bristol, England, glass weights. Perthshire closed their factory in 2002.