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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: incazzatonero on July 14, 2009, 04:45:42 PM
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:huh: :huh: :huh:
A nice weight, isn't it?
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400059376203&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBDIX%3AIT&salenotsupported
The Label is saying Strathearn and I believe it also.
But why does it a little bit look like the Ysart-family?
Any commands?
Regards
Lothar
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Hi Lothar
I understand what you suggest about Ysart, but these were made just before Strathearn closed, and one of the workers told me it was an attempt to show what they could have done if the management would have let them! There was a continuous link through Ysart Bros. to Vasart to Strathearn. The design is an SP100, introduced in 1979, I think. But I'm sure Kev H knows better than me.
Alan
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Alan is correct. It's a Strathearn SP100 from the last couple of years of their paperweight production.
See this page in Richard More's website (http://strathearn.smugmug.com/gallery/258519_ayyQE#P-16-9) for another, particularly good, signed and dated example (but I would say that - it's one of my weights!). Others in the SP1xx range within Richard's site show that there could have been a really good future for millefiori weights from Strathearn if the management had recognised the collector potential of those "experimental" items.
And yes, to some extent, there is a similarity to some Ysart items (both Paul's work and from his father and brothers), especially with the SP100 concentrics. But in truth, these later Strathearn weights are simply very well made pieces that, in my mind, are every bit as good as many antique French examples, not just good Ysart pieces.
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:thup:
Thanks Alan and Kevin!
Very interesting!
Regards
Lothar