Topic: Ysart weights? Perhaps...

[KevinH]

Sorry not have been around for while folks, but I am having some ill health issues (and my dentist is starting to describe me as being "an interesting patient"!)

Anyway, just a quick comment on these items.

I agree with Alan.
Number 1 looks like many that have either a Vasart or Pirelli "shaped" label.
Number 2 has early canes (at least as early as Ysart Brothers period) but the dome seems very clear and would suggest the later Vasart years.

However, as I often point out to people, only a shortwave UV light will "prove" whether items like these were made before 1956.

PY would not have been looking over the shoulder of whoever made those items, which are all of the "standard gift item" quality produced in thousands by Vasart / Strathearn.

[josordoni]

Hi Kev, thanks for your input too, Richard More was kind enough to contact me directly and steer me towards some of his pictures for further guidance, his feeling was that they were Vasart, possibly in the earlier Ysart period for the first one, a bar tool for the second (although as you say, the canes could be earlier - I found the central cane on an earlier Ysart concentric on his pages, but I agree that means nothing in terms of the overall age of the weight), early Strathearn for the last one, so I've kept the middle of the fence referring everyone to here, the Ysart pages and the sections that Richard suggested on his listing.  Hopefully that should be sufficient information for people to make their own minds up as to what these are.

Ultimately, they are nice weights!  I like them, especially the little one.