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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: mildawg on April 29, 2012, 10:05:43 PM
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Just a guess but J Gentile comes to mind , i have a couple of their weights , but i am sure i will get shot down .
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Toledo, Ohio was the home to the big and famous Libbey Glass factory, and it could be that the paperweight would have been made locally. I think Gentile are in West Virginia. However, I recall from a talk at a recent PCA Conference that over 100 glass factories in the US Mid West made some paperweights...and that attributing individual weights to particular factories was often extremely difficult.
Alan
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Thanks to both
I was thinking I had read or came across something at one time about Libby glass and weights like this. I think your response Alan pretty much confirms my first instinct.