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Title: ID Help - Possible Strathearn?
Post by: jessculter on November 06, 2013, 09:39:40 PM

Hi Folks,

Looking for some confirmation that this is indeed Strathearn..

Thanks for your help.

James

Title: Re: ID Help - Possible Strathearn?
Post by: tropdevin on November 06, 2013, 10:30:13 PM

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Hi.

I understand why you suggest Strathearn, but I think it is actually an early Perthshire, pre-1978 example. You don't specify the size, but either a PP1 or PP2 depending upon diameter.

Alan

Title: Re: ID Help - Possible Strathearn?
Post by: jessculter on November 06, 2013, 10:53:38 PM

Hi Alan,

It's about 3" in diameter.

Thanks for your help.

Title: Re: ID Help - Possible Strathearn?
Post by: pooleandpaperweights on November 07, 2013, 09:24:36 AM

PP1, PP2 is 2.5 inches, PP1 3 inches.

Sell very well these days. 

Title: Re: ID Help - Possible Strathearn?
Post by: jessculter on November 08, 2013, 04:59:31 PM

Quote from: pooleandpaperweights on November 07, 2013, 09:24:36 AM

PP1, PP2 is 2.5 inches, PP1 3 inches.

Sell very well these days.

Thanks for the info but I read that pp1 weights have 12/13 spokes. My one is short of this.

Spokes, I meant to say spirals

Title: Re: ID Help - Possible Strathearn?
Post by: tropdevin on November 08, 2013, 10:20:07 PM

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Hi Jess

The number of spokes depends upon when they were made. Early ones had quite a range of numbers of spokes (I think from 8 to 17).

I think that the useful message from this - to you and many others - is don't believe everything you read, without considering it might not be the whole story, or might be out of date, or incorrect (especially from books written 30 years or more ago)! It is a common problem that collectors (both new and experienced) read just one source of information - sometimes from the 1960s -and believe that what they read is the definitive text.

Alan