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Title: Whitefriars - why quite so expensive?
Post by: tropdevin on August 09, 2010, 12:12:56 PM

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I guess that this Whitefriars paperweight (http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&pub=5574631383&toolid=10001&campid=5336261829&customid=&icep_item=220640187467&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg) is an unusual / rare design, but it made a lot of money.  Any thoughts or information welcome!

Alan

Title: Re: Whitefriars - why quite so expensive?
Post by: chopin-liszt on August 09, 2010, 12:38:49 PM

I know nothing about pws or wfs, not my interest, but this appears to have a wrong cane in it - perhaps it has some sort of "rarity" value?

Title: Re: Whitefriars - why quite so expensive?
Post by: Lustrousstone on August 09, 2010, 12:50:29 PM

That's the monk cane.

Title: Re: Whitefriars - why quite so expensive?
Post by: chopin-liszt on August 09, 2010, 12:56:02 PM

 :o It is???

Don't mention "monks" and "canes" in the same breath in front of Michael!

Title: Re: Whitefriars - why quite so expensive?
Post by: w84it on August 09, 2010, 06:21:27 PM

Hi Alan.

It's a cracking weight.   Appeals to me because of the symetry.   If only they had placed the monk in the dead centre.

I guess it's rarity value.  I've only seen one other.   Although it was still being made six years after this one, so must be a few about.   Pattern PB301 in the 1978 catalogue, I believe.

 :cheers:

Keith

Title: Re: Whitefriars - why quite so expensive?
Post by: Lily of the Valley on August 10, 2010, 02:18:50 AM

It wasn't all that long ago the selling price for this nice WF would have been considered a real bargain!  As I recall, WF weights seemed to be commanding great $$$$ up until everything went south.  Does anyone have a WF weight that is not facetted?

Lily :)

Title: Re: Whitefriars - why quite so expensive?
Post by: KevinH on August 10, 2010, 02:42:56 AM

Non-faceted Whitefriars? Yes, people do have them. :)

Title: Re: Whitefriars - why quite so expensive?
Post by: johnphilip on August 10, 2010, 06:40:01 AM

Yes i have a couple of unfaceted , i also have the coveted Partridge in a pear tree but that is faceted . ; ;D
Spell chech tells me unfaceted should be infested . :chky: :24:

Title: Re: Whitefriars - why quite so expensive?
Post by: tropdevin on August 10, 2010, 09:21:56 AM

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I have 7 or 8 unfacetted Whitefriars - three EIIR 1953s, two Triplex 1951s, and concentrics from the 1950s-1960s.  I have a rare facetted weight too: the rarest Christmas weight (the 1980 Christmas Bell).

Alan

Title: Re: Whitefriars - why quite so expensive?
Post by: jamalpa36 on August 10, 2010, 01:38:31 PM

I have 22 unfaceted :hi: :hi: :hi:
That is about 15% of my whitefriars weights

Roy

Title: Re: Whitefriars - why quite so expensive?
Post by: johnphilip on August 10, 2010, 05:40:57 PM

OK so you both topped me , i have an older brother that always does that . :cry: :huh: :pb: ;D

Title: Re: Whitefriars - why quite so expensive?
Post by: jamalpa36 on August 10, 2010, 08:03:41 PM

I haven't got a younger brother so I have to use you lot for my oneupmanship. ;D ;D ;D

Roy

Title: Re: Whitefriars - why quite so expensive?
Post by: Lily of the Valley on August 11, 2010, 03:14:36 AM

Thank you, gentlemen. :tof:

Lily