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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: incazzatonero on March 07, 2009, 10:21:56 AM
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I have sold this weight as "Strathearn or Perthshire" and have thought it was right.
(Either Strathearn then Perthshire, but I have been not quite sure).
Did I make a mistake?
Could it be not Strathearn?
And when: what is it?
Regards.
Lothar
More pichtures under:
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330307506918&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:DE:1123
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It is one of many that could be either later Vasart or Strathearn. Without a label or some other clue there is no way to be sure which it is.
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Hello KevH :hiclp:!
Thanks for answering!
You know, I have sold the weight to UK :huh:
The british purchaser wrote to me, it seemd to be not Perthshire or Strathearn.
That maybe right, if we are looking to the later Strathearn and perfekt later Perthshire weights. :hiclp:
He spoke about "crude" kind of making and so on.
I wrote him, to look to some LINKS which I wrote him and to ask Allen Thornton for example because I am also a member of the PCC,.... or to bring it here on the board (I have done it).
Then he told me, he will ask some people on an lokal antiques fair and he had done so.
To paypal he wrote: it is a fake or chinese weight. That troubeld me very much >:D, because of the canes, the greenish, opak ground and the typical pointil mark, I have been sure : it is an old, solid scottish weight!
I do not want to make you the judge in this case. I want to discuss truly and public!
And I believe:to make a mistake is human beeing.
Please tell me : do you think : is there any little, little chance that this weight could be chinese or a fake???? :huh: :huh: :huh:
I have seen some chinese weights, but never spoke or cartwheel designed ones like this.
Did you ever heard of that???
I will try to make an invitation to the purchaiser here on the board.
To make problems public seemed to me the best way.
Hope you shall answer to that trifle, because the reproach is against my honor.
Regards.
Lothar
Please excuse my terrible english!!!!
:cry: :cry: :cry:
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I think you provided more than enough very clear photos for him to make up his mind. To me (and all I know about paperweights is what I have learnt from here and then looking at paperweights in antique centres) it looks like Strathearn and if I had found it cheap at a boot sale or flea market I would have snapped it up. Truly, how many dealers of mixed items at antique fairs know what everything they have if it hasn't got a label.
There is no market in faking Strathearns. It does not have the finish or the Murano-type cane look of modern Chinese lookalikes, although it does have have a bottom similar to a 1930s Chinese, which is well before Strathearn time.
I wonder if your buyer bought it for resale without doing his homework on how much they are fetching or even on what Srathearns are?
You have two courses, your either stand your ground and supply evidence to paypal of what you sold or you ask him to return it the same condition you sent it at his expense and then when it comes back to refund him and put him on your blocked sellers list
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Hi Lothar dont worry about you English some of us AINT so hot and if that weight is Chinese i will buy a hat and eat it , i am no expert but have been into paperweights for about 30 years . Regards JP . ::) :angel:
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Hi Lothar
Your weight is Scottish,without a doubt. I am surprised that any collector could think Murano or Chinese.
You may have left out Vasart or Ysart Brothers in your description but buyers have to take some responsibility for their purchase.
Good Luck
Roy
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Hi Lothar, I know little about paperweights but I do know that your buyer would have to get third party proof, in writing to PayPal that it's a fake, they won't just take his word for it. I'd keep copies of these replies in case you need to forward them to PP and just sit tight for the meantime. However, sometimes it's easier and less hassle to simply offer the customer a refund and be done with it.
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Some Vasart weights can look a bit more "untidy" than Strathearn, and some Strathearn from the early days of S.
can also look "untidy".
I am 100% certain this is not a Chinese or Muranese copy but indeed a Scottish weight from Vasart or Strathearn.
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I forgot to say yes SCOTTISH . in my opinion . :thup:
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I've been away for a day so have not seen this development until now. Nice to see the various replies in favour of the Scottish origin.
I stand by my first statement of either later Vasart (1956 to 1964) or early Strathearn (likely first half of the full Strathearn paperweight years of 1965 to 1980). Even a UV check will not separate those weights as the glass batch was essentially the same over the whole 24 years.
I have never yet seen a Chinese weight of that design. And although Christine's comment about the base of the weight suggests it could be similar to 1930s Chinese, I would query that. The finish on the base of the weight in question is of a form which is typical of many of the Vasart / Stathearn items and, from your eBay photo, looks like it could be lightly fire-polished giving a smooth but partly "wavy" surface. It is not like the lightly ground base surface of so many Chinese items.
If reference is needed to other similar weights, please see my website articles at:
http://www.btinternet.com/~kevh.glass/
Good luck.
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Thanks you all for answering my question here on the board!<<<<<<1 :hiclp:
I have made an invitation to the purchaser to discuss the problem here public on the board , but he did not want it.
He only want a little refund. :hiclp:
For me it is wonderfull to see and learn so much here on the board and from the others, which would be kind to give and to share their knowledge!
Thanks.
Lothar
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My base comment was based on my two Chinese 1930s (ish) PWs, both of which have sort of buttony type fire finished pontil marks and have never been near a grinder
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It would be good to see some pics of those bases, Christine. Might be a type of Chinese finsih that is not well known.
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On ebay you can find one picture of the base ( please search under pictures):
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330307506918&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:DE:1123
Besides other weights, I have about over 30 Vasart and over 30 Strathearn weights in my collection, most of them fro the German collector Kerstin Stammwitz (= krapfe). Some of them with Vasart or Strathaern label.. Also 5 Chinese weights ( 4 from about 1930 and one later lizard from the second part of 19c).
The base of the weight we are talking about is typical Strathearn or Vasart, with a base which we called in German "feuerpoliert", do you say "fire polished"?
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Hi Lothar
I have sold over 500 Strathearn / Vasart weights over the last few years (yes, really) and have a good idea what they look like. I also collect Chinese weights, and have around 100 of those. Your weight looks as Scottish as they come - I have never seen a Chinese design like that.
Alan
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Lothar, my request for base images was in connection with Christine's comment about her Chinese weights.
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Hi Allen!
I will tell you the truth: I was waiting for your commend! ;)
You know, since 18 month I am a member of the PCC and since about 2 years I have studied and purchased (some from the nice sellers of rosismum) ;D paperweights very, very much.
(Of course I have also all the important books, Links and so on).
I believe the same : it is an original Scottish weight,and the rest is, what KevH has talk about.
I have no need for making me an "bad conscience"! ( do you say so?)
Thanks all, for the discussion here on the board.
Regards.
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Hi Lothar
I would have sold your weight as a late Vasart / early Strathearn without any doubts! I don't think you should worry. If the buyer is in doubt, that is a shame, but he is mistaken.
Regards
Alan
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Perhaps you could direct buyer here so that he can see the discussion? :)
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to cathy:
I have done it, but he do not want it. :hiclp:
Insted of that, he gave me negative response on ebay: :hiclp: :hiclp: :hiclp:
Item appears to be a fake. Seller began sending harassing emails when told. :chky: :chky: :chky:
Käufer: qrz5459 ( 779 [Bewertungspunktestand von 500 bis 999] )
13.03.09 21:55
Perthshire Strathearn Millefiori Paperweight (Nr.330307506918)
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Please let us only talk about, what the item could be.
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What a nasty character he was!
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Lothar, I do not know what the buyer's problem was. You took excellent pictures of the PW. Even I, who knows very little about Scottish PWs, can tell that your PW is attributed correctly. Sorry you had to deal with such a buyer.