Paul Ysart (1904 -1991) was born in Barcelona, Spain. He emigrated with his family and eventually settled in Scotland in 1915. After leaving school, Paul began an apprenticeship in the Moncrieff glassworks. By the late 1930s he was already making quality paperweights - as we know from Evangeline Bergstrom’s book “Old Glass Paperweights” printed in 1940. Two of his weights were illustrated and - due to their quality - Mrs. Bergstrom assumed they must be French - although she was puzzled by the PY signature. After leaving Moncrieff, Paul worked as a training officer at Caithness Glass from 1962 to 1970, before setting up his own companies Harland and Highland Paperweights. Paul Ysart continued to produce beautiful - and today very sought after - paperweights up to the end of the 1970s.

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