Topic: Help id please

[millarart]

Anyone any ideas on this weight please, i was thinking Salvador Ysart but now its been mentioned its a jack allan frigger made at perthshire paperweights , can anyone help id the canes

[Lustrousstone]

You picture is titchy and doesn't blow up so we can see details. Can we have a larger image please

[millarart]

Hi i hope this works better

[chopin-liszt]

First pic is miles better - the second is still titchy. I wanted to see if there were letters inside the canes - there's something inside them. 

[millarart]

Hi Sue
       There are no letters etc inside the canes

[chopin-liszt]

My imagination, filling in bits that are not there.  Thanks!

[KevinH]

Hi folks.
As well as a possible (hard to prove) Jack Alan weight, this one could be one of the range of "experimental" items made at Strathearn in 1979/80.

Several of those "experimental" weights have the 'white thread cushion' (techy term eludes me right now.) And several are known to use canes originating from the Ysart Brothers (Vasart) period - which I think is the case for the outer garland.

This is an interesting weght and more clues to its actual maker may pop up in the course of time.

[millarart]

Hi Kevin
              Thanks for your thoughts on this weight, fingers crossed more info pops up soon

[Derek]

Hi all

Interesting weight!

I contacted Dave Moir who worked with the Ysart Brothers/Vasart/Strathearn
from 1954 right until they ceased paperweight production in 1980.

Dave says that the outer garland is definitely made of the canes Strathearn
used for the experimental overlays in 1979/1980.

He says that the mesh was VERY tricky to get even and he suspects it was
Jack Allan who made the weight but whether it was made at Strathearn
in 79/80 or by Jack in the early years at Perthshire Paperweights with canes
he took with him from Strathearn cannot be determined.

If not a Jack Allan weights then one other name Dave mentioned as the
possible maker is Donald McDonald

Best regards

Derek