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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: w84it on November 10, 2008, 07:39:50 PM
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Is this really an Ysart crown?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=180304074712&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=008 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=180304074712&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=008)
I've not come across one before.
Or could it be a Murano?
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This is certainly an Ysart Crown. They are quite rare but There has been another on Ebay within the last couple of months
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yep defo paul ysart made in the harland years
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I wouldn't call them rare, they were the most commonly seen in the 80s/90s and one collector had dozens. Of course compared to some things they are not as common.
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You will find that the filigree canes used are also used to make Ysart snakes
The crowns are also made as magnums but these are very rare.
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Thanks one and all.
Any information on the 'rectangular black label'? Again, not something I'm familiar with.
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Both of my crowns have a white rectangular label with PY made in Scotland in Black print
I wonder if this is what the seller means
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Rarity of Paul Ysart Crown weights ... I don't have one in my collection, so they must be rare. ;D
Actually, I have bd on several over the years but so far have not been the high bidder. There were several offered in the two-part "Parkington sale" at Christie's, London in 1997/8. Since then they appear occasionally in various auctions, through specialist dealers and in eBay.
I think there are probably more PY Crown weights from the Harland years (70s) than from either the 30s-50s or the 60s. The rarest may well be versions from the 1930s that have a very low dome, one of which is illustrated in the "Bergstrom book" and another I have personally viewed in a collection.
I agree that the label on the eBay one is most probably the white one with black letters. An example is shown in my artcile in Angela's Glass Musem (http://www.glass.co.nz/ysart.htm) (but note that my pic shows the label as a "patchy" blue - which is actually the colour of the weight showing through the label which has become thin through wear.
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The seller has put a photograph of the label on the item and as I suggested it is the standard PY Made in scotland White label not a black label.
;D ;D
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For some reason that is not on the labels page of Ysart glass... will add it!