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Paperweight. Vasart/Strathearn or neither please

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Frank:
During the 1980's this was the most commonly found type of Vasart weight, as time passes more and more of the unusual are appearing. The same applies to Vasart glassware and another 20 years all sorts of remarkable Strathearn will start to appear. 50+ years is the 'normal' period for collectibles to start to appear in force. Of course the high speed age of the Internet must be shortening that time scale... look at all the McDonalds and chocolate egg toys on eBay.

Leni:

--- Quote from: "Frank" ---During the 1980's this was the most commonly found type of Vasart weight,  

look at all the McDonalds and chocolate egg toys on eBay.
--- End quote ---

The point here is, if people treat a 'commonly found' item as disposable, so that most of them get broken or thrown away, eventually they will become rare and those people who collect such 'junk' will find themselves with valuable 'collectables'!   :lol:

(At least, that's what I try to convince my kids when they roll their eyes and tap their heads at my 'collection' of old bottles and jars  :lol:  :roll:  :lol:  :roll: )

Leni

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: "Frank" ---During the 1980's this was the most commonly found type of Vasart weight, as time passes more and more of the unusual are appearing. The same applies to Vasart glassware and another 20 years all sorts of remarkable Strathearn will start to appear. 50+ years is the 'normal' period for collectibles to start to appear in force. Of course the high speed age of the Internet must be shortening that time scale... look at all the McDonalds and chocolate egg toys on eBay.
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Frank

Bit of an odd situation as in 20 years I dont recall coming across such a "plain one" ...( I'm not talking about the design )...and there are many places that I go to where the dross gravitates to...and then there's Ebay where again all and everything turns up....added to which there is a multitude of far lesser pieces , and made more recently, and they're all over the place. I understand that the rarer ones eventually surface but so far my experience has been that the lesser types were always there to be had.

Kev

I asked about pattern names because for no logical reason simply assumed as it was in the family that they would have PP references, or something, like the Strathearn ones

Leni

At £15 I'm certainly neither complaining nor dissapointed....just a bit surprised.


Many thanks to you all


Gareth


morgan48

Frank:
In the eighties I did a lot of trawling in Scotland for Monart and Vasart, I came across quite a few weights, although very rarely PY's. I did not find many elsewhere. But of course, the 'Paperweight Army' were a busy lot then too.

Look at the poor selection of Vasart weights in Ysart Glass compared to the PY's

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: "Frank" ---In the eighties I did a lot of trawling in Scotland for Monart and Vasart, I came across quite a few weights, although very rarely PY's. I did not find many elsewhere. But of course, the 'Paperweight Army' were a busy lot then too.

Look at the poor selection of Vasart weights in Ysart Glass compared to the PY's
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I'm surprised at how many Strathearn/Perthshire ones are coming out of Germany.....why am I surprised...........I dunno...!



Gareth



morgan48

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