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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: casalibre on August 15, 2013, 05:41:09 PM

Title: What is that?
Post by: casalibre on August 15, 2013, 05:41:09 PM

On ebay Germany runs very cheap:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Seltener-mechanischer-Briefbeschwerer-Paperweight-Bohmen-um-1900-/320801984199?pt=Glas_Kristall&hash=item4ab149cec7
Does anybody know more about such items?

Title: Re: What is that?
Post by: tropdevin on August 15, 2013, 09:07:38 PM

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Hi.  There have been various makers of these paperweights enclosing animated figures, in various countries. The most common is the turtle, often attributed to Gillinder - which I think is correct for those examples where the circular paperweight is held in a frosted glass hand.  The simple turtles and rarer items such as horses and elephants may be from a different maker - or makers.  I think this type of paperweight was made in Europe, as well as the USA.  They date anywhere from the late 1800s to, I believe, as late as 1950.

Alan

Title: Re: What is that?
Post by: casalibre on August 16, 2013, 01:57:10 PM

Thanks Alan!