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Message:: [QUOTE="Bdigger, post: 37256, member: 157"]Here is a short part of n article on Murano/ Italian weights. You often see Italian weights with date canes. A dated 1845-47 weight by Pietro Bigaglia (1786-1876) can have a five-figure value, but almost all Italian weights with 19th century date canes that you see are fake. Label: E & R Italy – This is the importer Ebeling and Reuss of Philadelphia, founded in 1886. They imported Italian paperweights probably beginning in the 1950s and ending in the 1990s, including Fratelli Toso and others. Importer label KB (“An Original Creation by KB Made in Italy”) silver and blue foil sticker is the sticker of the importer, Koscherak Brothers of New York and dates a paperweight to 1960s- 1970s. If you have additional information about a maker, importer, or dates, please let me know. As always, let me know if you have any questions. The full article can be foubd  here <a href="https://www.westerncoloradopublishing.com/Murano__page_1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.westerncoloradopublishing.com/Murano__page_1.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.westerncoloradopublishing.com/Murano__page_1.html</a>[/QUOTE]