Topic: Whitefriars bubble weights - what colours did they come in?

[josordoni]

Can someone tell me the colours that the standard 9308 bubble weights came in?  I can't seem to work out the correct names for the colours.  I have one that looks sort of pale pewter-y to me, I have seen one on ebay called Sapphire blue, but can't find that colour shown on the Whitefriars catalogues, but neither can I find pewter.  So what should I call it?

Also, I have another really dark dark grey one, so dark that the bubbles can only be seen when held to the light, then it is beautiful.  What is that?  When I try to photograph that it comes out as a blackish blob....

thanks!

[Pinkspoons]

Sapphire blue is a really bright blue colour, used before 1960, when it was replaced with Arctic Blue.

Edit: Pewter colour, c.1970.

And Sapphire Blue

[josordoni]

Thanks Nic!

Here is the link to the ebay piece that was advertised as Sapphire.... unless it was a very dark day, it didn't seem right to me....here

I would certainly call my weight pewter, I just wondered if it was made in that colour, or if they called it something else?  Here it is anyway: here

[Pinkspoons]

The auction one is definitely not Sapphire! 

Bingo! The 1972 catalogue lists them in a colour called Silver. That's your colour, I suspect.

[vidrioguapo]

Beat me to it Nic...definitely Silver.  Emmi

 

[josordoni]

Thank you both!  That's excellent.  So that is what the S in the catalogue is, I assumed it was this Sapphire blue (duh!)

[vidrioguapo]

No . S = Silver

Sapphire Blue finished around 1959 - 60 and was cataloged as B = Blue.

[Pinkspoons]

Was Silver exclusive to 1972? It's not mentioned in the '73 supplement, but that only shows a limited number of patterns.

[vidrioguapo]

Silver was 1971 - 1973 - it is listed as a colour in 1973 in the Price Lists, but there is also a note that the 1973 Price List was not used "due to the Freeze".  Whether that also meant that some items were not produced in certain colours during that year, or just that the prices listed did not apply, is not clear. Emmi