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Offline Wuff

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Perthshire ?
« on: August 08, 2009, 10:32:16 PM »
This weight is offered as Perthshire weight - but I cannot find it in any of my sources. The seller indicated that it was sold to her as "Perthshire" together with a jug, correctly identified as Perthshire (a "PP23").

Any ideas what it could be?
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Re: Perthshire ?
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2009, 03:06:54 AM »
It looks almost like a furniture coaster -those glass things they used to make to put under furniture legs so they wouldn't mar the floor.

Somehow I doubt they would put that much work into a furniture coaster. Could it be a pin dish?

The twists are very neat like Perthshire. The canes look like they could be early P or Strathearn. Not positive on that. Maybe it is something one of the workers made as a gift for someone
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Re: Perthshire ?
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2009, 08:13:16 AM »
Hi

I would go for early Strathearn / late Vasart as the origin. I have seen various bowls / pin dishes / odd shaped paperweight related items from that source, and the canes look correct.

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