Topic: help id paperweight

[Layna]

i have been told this weight is a strathearn anyone confirm please

[Lustrousstone]

Hi Welcome to the board. You need to post a picture as well please, see http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,6523.0.html

[Layna]

having problems putting picture on will try again

[KevinH]

Yes Strathearn is likely.
But it might also be from the later years of Vasart, before the company renaming.
Hard to be precise with type of weight.

Check out my Vasart / Strathearn page for a few examples and commets of why I think it's not so easy to attribute some of these pieces.

[Layna]

the reason i was unsure is because the glass is very grey and all my other strathearn are clear and also the cane that looks like a figure 8 thanks for you help

[Frank]

That cane could be the clubs see #9 here http://www.ysartglass.com/Vascat/VasPcanes.htm

but the picture is not that clear, can you try a closer shot?

[Layna]

heres a closer picture

[KevinH]

It's one of several variations of a "mirror-image" cane structure that can be found in weights from lots of makers. Sometimes these appear as a figure "8", sometimes as what some folk call "window canes" and at times, like this one, what I would describe as closer to an "hour glass", with the top and bottom having straight edges. I have no idea what the original design was intended to be.

The fact that the cane is set with yellow glass in and around the "hour glass" shape and this is rectangular within the white outer coating, makes it very much different from the form of the "playing card" canes - but yes, at a distance, it could easily be thought to be a distorted version of a "club" cane or a even sqaushed cross.