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Title: Need Help Describing Interior "Line" in 1973 Perthshire Scramble
Post by: janettekay on January 03, 2012, 08:40:19 PM
Hi All (and Happy New Year)

I am downsizing my paperweight collection..and may be listing my 1973 end of day Perthshire  weight...PP19
I was looking at it closely today..and paniced..thinking I saw a scratch..but it is really a line inside the weight..which runs across part of the top and is visible in cetain light and at an angle....(I REALLY tried to take a pic..but it is impossible so far to capture it--but I will continue to try!)

 If anyone knows what I am trying to describe   ;)  Is there a name for this?  Meanwhile back to trying to get a photo of it...
Thanks so much..
Title: Re: Need Help Describing Interior "Line" in 1973 Perthshire Scramble
Post by: tootingpf on January 03, 2012, 10:21:41 PM
Striation?
Title: Re: Need Help Describing Interior "Line" in 1973 Perthshire Scramble
Post by: SophieB on January 03, 2012, 11:01:13 PM
Hi,

From your description, it could be some cording (these lines in the glass or cording occur during the encasement).

It is regarded by some as a flaw (it does not bother me much if it does not interfere with the design). I have never seen cording in a Perthshire weight before, though.

SophieB
Title: Re: Need Help Describing Interior "Line" in 1973 Perthshire Scramble
Post by: janettekay on January 03, 2012, 11:30:10 PM
I thank you both for your replies..as I know it is so hard to answer without a pic!  I have tried again and again to get a pic of this..still no luck...will try again tomorrow in natural light...and post again..
Title: Re: Need Help Describing Interior "Line" in 1973 Perthshire Scramble
Post by: Lustrousstone on January 04, 2012, 07:18:55 AM
If the line looks shiny and reflective it may be a crack. We really need a picture
Title: Re: Need Help Describing Interior "Line" in 1973 Perthshire Scramble
Post by: janettekay on January 04, 2012, 02:48:51 PM
I have tried to post a pic from photobucket...could not get it to work
BTW--best description is a clear swirly (at end )  hair..it is not a crack..I have seen similar in other weights I have owned...
Title: Re: Need Help Describing Interior "Line" in 1973 Perthshire Scramble
Post by: tropdevin on January 04, 2012, 04:23:23 PM
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Hi Janette

It does sound like 'cording' / 'sugaring' / striations, whatever you wish to call it. Looking at your two images on Photobucket direct, if you mean the horizontal line curving down at the right, then it is cording.  Not common in Perthshire weights, but not unknown, especially in earlier ones.  

Link to Photobucket image (http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g113/janettekay/Perth%20scramble/paperweightstemporary012.jpg)

Alan
Title: Re: Need Help Describing Interior "Line" in 1973 Perthshire Scramble
Post by: janettekay on January 04, 2012, 05:13:09 PM
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Hi Janette

It does sound like 'cording' / 'sugaring' / striations, whatever you wish to call it. Looking at your two images on Photobucket direct, if you mean the horizontal line curving down at the right, then it is cording.  Not common in Perthshire weights, but not unknown, especially in earlier ones.  

Link to Photobucket image (http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g113/janettekay/Perth%20scramble/paperweightstemporary012.jpg)

Alan

Thanks so much Alan...yes...that is the line I was talking about...above my finger-- I sometimes see it in my cut glass pieces..and in some other weights I have..just never knew what to call it...and I always like to make my descriptions very accurate..!   
And for my own edification...what is the cause..?
Title: Re: Need Help Describing Interior "Line" in 1973 Perthshire Scramble
Post by: chopin-liszt on January 04, 2012, 05:25:01 PM
Movement in the clear glass being used to make the casing, while still hot.
I call it striations.
Title: Re: Need Help Describing Interior "Line" in 1973 Perthshire Scramble
Post by: johnphilip on January 04, 2012, 08:33:12 PM
It also could be an annealing crack , i hope not , you dont often see them in Perthshire weights so dont panick .
As Alan said you dont often get striation or any other flaws with Perthshire .
Title: Re: Need Help Describing Interior "Line" in 1973 Perthshire Scramble
Post by: janettekay on January 04, 2012, 09:27:05 PM
It also could be an annealing crack , i hope not , you dont often see them in Perthshire weights so dont panick .
As Alan said you dont often get striation or any other flaws with Perthshire .
I really do not think it is a crack..I have seen those!!!!...it is very thin..very fine--whispy (and bends at the end)...my pic is on super macro..and took forever to capture..
it does not interfere with the design..and seen only on certain angle..
It is a nice PW..and I do have the original green presentation box and certificate which I know helps in selling..
Title: Re: Need Help Describing Interior "Line" in 1973 Perthshire Scramble
Post by: Roger H on January 05, 2012, 11:29:28 AM
If you list it for sale, giving that view and a top view where it is probably very difficult to see and give your honest description, as you will of course, nobody can complain.  This is a very early weight from the factory and very occasionally there may be a very minor variation in the glass. 
     There are one or two perfectionists out there so they should not bid.
        Regards Roger.
Title: Re: Need Help Describing Interior "Line" in 1973 Perthshire Scramble
Post by: janettekay on January 05, 2012, 03:22:10 PM
Thanks to everyone !!!
I do so appreciate all the input!
janette
Title: Re: Need Help Describing Interior "Line" in 1973 Perthshire Scramble
Post by: tootingpf on January 07, 2012, 11:41:13 PM
Ring the bells that still can ring,
Forget your perfect offering,
There is a crack in everything,
That's the way the light gets in...

Leonard Cohen

Who needs perfection....?

Graham