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Strathearn Glass - from
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A short explanation of Strathearn Glass:Strathearn Glass was the name given to the Vasart Glass company in Scotland when it was bought out in 1965 by Teacher's the whisky company. Teacher's moved the glassworks into a new purpose-built factory in nearby Crieff. Strathearn Glass continued to make the same style of vases, bowls and lamps as Vasart and Monart, but these are easy to distinguish because they have the company trademark, a leaping salmon, imprinted onto the pontil. Strathearn also made millefiori paperweights like the one shown above on the left. But the main attraction for their new owners, Teacher's Whisky, was a series of ashtrays made out of squashed whiskey bottles, which were made in their thousands.
The Ysart family had founded Vasart Glass in 1946, when Salvador Ysart and two of his sons left Moncrieff Glassworks and set up their own works in Perth. This now-famous immigrant Spanish family had designed and made the very successful "Monart" glass vases and bowls whilst working at Moncrieff Glassworks, and Vasart glass was similar to Monart but the colours were more pastel. Strathearn glass is similar to both, with a return to bright colours in some examples. Like Monart, the glass was made by blowing a clear crystal blank, then rolling this molten vessel over a pattern made up from crushed fragments of coloured glass (enamels). The whole vase was then cased in clear crystal.
Before Teacher's took over Vasart, both Salvador and Augustine Ysart had died (in 1955/56) leaving only Vincent Ysart and his partner George Dunlop. Strathearn Glass had new facilities and could make eight times the production levels of Teacher's novelty ashtrays than had been acheived at Vasart. But some 12 years later, in 1980, when the flattened whisky bottle ashtrays were no longer so popular, Teachers sold Strathearn Glass to Stuart Crystal. Stuart's used the factory to make crystal blanks for cutting at their Stourbridge factory in England and they no longer made the Strathearn range of art glass nor paperweights.
If you would like more information on Ysart glass, go to our page on Monart glass (click here). The Glass Museum has an excellent article about Ysart paperweights (click here). And there is an excellent book called Ysart Glass (Volo Press 1990) but it is out of print, well worth buying if you can find a second-hand copy.
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References and Further Reading
1: Glassmakers of Stourbridge and Dudley 1612-2002, by Jason Ellis, (2002).
2: British Glass 1800-1914, by Charles R. Hajdamach, (1991).
3: 20th Century Factory Glass by Lesley Jackson (May 2000).
4: British Glass Between the Wars by Roger Dodsworth, (1987).
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