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Ysart, help!!!

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Frank:
I do not blame the glassmakers as there are just not enough collectors buying from them and of course the guilty ones are usually the dealers. There were four or five directly involved in the scam. They were mostly sold in England and the English police would not act because the maker was in Scotland... made it to complicated to bother with for them. There was a similar problem with Scottish police because they were mostly sold in England. I bought mine from an innocent Portobello Road weight dealer who would not get involved with the police. He did give me a lot of details about the operation. But the bulk of the information came through the network of the Cambridge Paperweight Club.

To this day the makers still involved are unknown. The early players ducked out.
:twisted:
The fake weights stopped by the time Perhshire Paperweights went bust.

The solution, get to those studios and by some hot 'Original' glass.

BJB:
Frank,

I bought two lovely pieces off him, as well as a load of books from the shop :)

There is no answer to the problem, only that they might be put out of business from the Chinese fakes soon :wink:

Barbara

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