I knew this would happen.
From the perspective of the glass bits, these are normally referred to by paperweight collectors as "related objects" but because they have actual papweights stuck on them, they are in fact much more closely related than other things, like glass walking sticks with coloured twists and are sometimes collected by paperweight folk!
Whether these are deemed Scottish or English is an interesting point in itself. As the complete items were, apparently, assembled in England they could be rightly be called English with Scottish bits. But which company - or companies - actually sold them? If Vasart Ltd sold them, could they then be Scotish with English bits? Or if Pirelli sold them, would they have been labelled with "Pirelli made in England" or, like lots of the later period Vasart weights, "Pirelli Glass Hand Made in Scotland"? And would the wording of the label really change the fact that these are composite items produced from work out of two different countries? And are we actually sure that none of these items were assembled at the Vasart works?
If this was a "bar bits board", I wonder what the "bar bits collectors" would say about the country of origin?
Personally, I think this message belongs more safely in the Paperweights forum, which would mean we don't have to worry too much about the country of origin of these fascinatng items.
Topic: Paperweight handle jiggers (Read 4251 times)
