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KevinH:
Hi cfosterk,

We really need to see a picture - even if you may think it's not a "good" pic.

Your description gives me a fair idea of what the weight may look like but as with all written (or verbal) descriptions it can be like a game of "Chinese whispers" since no two people will interpret the words in exactly the same way - particularly for things like a "two-tone colour".

However, I suspect that the general look of the weight is rather like this:
http://www.btinternet.com/~kevh.glass/pages/vas-strath/weight01.htm
(although the inner arrangement is obviously slightly different).

And for the canes that you refer to as "88" type, I think this is simply a group of four canes as an inner element - something like the inner parts of the cream-coloured canes in the weight I have shown above, although these have a group of 3 larger and 3 smaller rather than just 4.

For the canes with "... seven canes encased in...", I imagine these are generally similar in apperance to the canes in this weight (allowing for differences in details and the thickness and shape of the surround):
http://www.btinternet.com/~kevh.glass/pages/salv-ybros/detail-spoke02.htm

If my thoughts are close, then I would suggest that your weight is from either the "Ysart Brothers" period or the earlier "Vasart Ltd" time. But the older canes were also used in Strathearn weights so that is still a possibility.

As for a 5-spoke arrangement, I think this may be less common than say, 6 or 7 spokes but I don't think it's particularly unusual. Early Vasart ink bottles sometimes had stoppers with a 4-spoke setting.

Anyway, photos please. And a view of the base would be useful too, to determine whether the "attacking" is usage damage or some effect of the way the weight was made and (not) finished.

cfosterk:
don't have access to a 'public' website so not sure how to post pics (or links for that matter)

i will speak to my computer literate bruv

Della:
cfosterk,
Go to the glass or paperweight forum and click on "sticky, posting pictures." There you will find fool proof instructions on how to post photo's.
If I can do it, you can.
Good luck!

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