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Title: Antique French Paperweights
Post by: Krecik on April 14, 2016, 08:17:15 PM
What books would you recommend to learn more about antique paperweights?
Title: Re: Antique French Paperweights
Post by: tropdevin on April 14, 2016, 09:39:49 PM
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A good start for classic antique French paperweights by Baccarat, Clichy and Saint Louis is Paul Hollister's Encyclopedia, but it was written around 50 years ago and so does not include research since then.  Paul (in common with other authors of his time) tended to attribute every paperweight he came across to a factory he had heard of...which leads to significant errors.  The more we find out, the more that 'unknown (French / Belgian / English / whatever) factory' becomes the appropriate attribution.

Alan

Alan