The term “Old English” was coined to cover a number of glassworks which were producing paperweights - mainly close concentrics - in the 19th Century and well into the 1920s/30s. With many of these weights it’s impossible - due to a lack of records - to say with any certainty, where they originated. Some are meticulously made with complex canes; others have only simple cogs and lack the quality seen in the better weights. Companies known to have produced paperweights include H.G. Richardson in Stourbridge as well as Arculus in Birmingham, which was later acquired by Walsh-Walsh.

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