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Title: Vasart/ Strathearn transitional or not???
Post by: Roger H on July 16, 2012, 09:48:34 PM

    Bought this lovely weight recently but still cannot make up my mind as to the dating of it, any thoughts?  Diameter is 2.90 inches.
      Regards Roger

Title: Re: Vasart/ Strathearn transitional or not???
Post by: KevinH on July 16, 2012, 10:52:21 PM

A photo of the whole weight from the top, shoiwing the central canes, would be good.

Title: Re: Vasart/ Strathearn transitional or not???
Post by: Roger H on July 17, 2012, 07:10:36 PM

I wondered if somebody would ask for that, but at the time I only had Mb photos.  Here's one but its not super clarity. The pale 3rd row jellyfish canes I found unusual.
      Regards Roger.

Title: Re: Vasart/ Strathearn transitional or not???
Post by: Roger H on July 21, 2012, 08:21:32 PM

I have seen the canes in both vasart and strathearn occasionaly so I guess I will have to give it the name vasarthearn mid 1960s.
        Roger.

Title: Re: Vasart/ Strathearn transitional or not???
Post by: KevinH on July 21, 2012, 10:17:27 PM

I would refer to this one as "transitional" - late Vasart or early Strathearn.

Title: Re: Vasart/ Strathearn transitional or not???
Post by: Roger H on July 21, 2012, 10:42:16 PM

Yes, thank you, I was only joking about the conjoined names.   
      Transitional is the correct terminology.
     Regards Roger.

Title: Re: Vasart/ Strathearn transitional or not???
Post by: Roger H on July 26, 2012, 10:55:38 PM

Taken another look at this weight and 1960s seems quite reasonable. Had another look through Richard More's quite comprehensive site and I was surprised how many I considered to be vasart ltd are really early strathearn, very interesting.
           Regards Roger.

Title: Re: Vasart/ Strathearn transitional or not???
Post by: KevinH on July 27, 2012, 04:35:54 PM

Richard's site is an excellent resource.

However, he gives an "early Strathearn" attribution to a number of weights that are not signed or labelled and for which, on overall appearance, I would prefer to see a description of "transitional Vasart Ltd / Strathearn".

Title: Re: Vasart/ Strathearn transitional or not???
Post by: Roger H on July 27, 2012, 07:20:49 PM

Yes wouldn't it be good to ask somebody who was there in the mid 60s.
       The ghostly canes in the 3rd row still intrigue me.
           Regards Roger

Title: Re: Vasart/ Strathearn transitional or not???
Post by: Roger H on July 27, 2012, 10:27:54 PM

Still checking through Richard More's site and the layout and cane positioning of DCP04657VP7 looks very close to mine.     Gets "more" interesting by the hour.
      Regards Roger.