Topic: Caithness "Sea Pearls" paperweight... Information wanted

[Wuff]

I wish there was some sort of serial number database on there to identify an individual item.

With serial number - do you mean the number signed on the base of your weight (U5082)?

I very much doubt this ever existed - and if it did, it was discarded during liquidation in 2006. You could do some rough estimates yourself : these production numbers were introduced in 1983 (starting with A) - and between then and 2004 the number of unlimited weights produced per year varied between 50'000 and 140'000 ... that adds up to between 1 and 2 millions of weights ... and what would be the benefit?

[Glass-Hunter]

Wuff... to the best of your knowledge can you just break down what the "U5082" etched on my paperweight exactly translates to. With all I have read I am now more confused than ever. LOL Thanks

[Wuff]

Well - as stated above:
- the U stands for 1998
- the 5082 doesn't stay for anything - it's just a running number, the 5082th unlimited weight produced this year.

[Nick77]

As a matter of interest I was just checking eBay and there are two Sea Pearls weights listed on U18570 and the other U16159


Nick

[orangeglass]

I'm confused now - doesn't the U in this case just mean unlimited ?