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96. Saint Louis scrambled
weight with whole and broken complex canes, including
complex six-pointed star, fortress and cog canes, twists and
pieces of latticinio filigree in sulfur yellow, chartreuse, pink,
salmon, thalo blue, cadmium green, copper aventurine and lake
red. (See L. H. Selman Ltd. Spring 1995 Mail Auction, lot 24)
Diameter 3 3/8". $800-1500
97. New England Glass
Company scrambled weight with a running rabbit silhouette
amidst whole and broken complex cog canes, pressed into a bed
of more finely crushed canes, in cobalt blue, powder blue, ruby,
yellow, pink, white, lime green and forest green. "The New
England variety typically proves more colorful and tightly packed."—The
Art of the Paperweight—The Boston & Sandwich and New
England Glass Companies.From the Winters collection. Diameter
2 13/16". $150-300
98. Baccarat rock weight,
also called mountains of the moon and sand dunes, this
weight features a sandy ground flecked with green glass and mica.
Annealing crack in base. "In 1880, Baccarat issued for the
first time the so-called rock weights, some of them including
reptiles and a few including flowers."—Paperweights.
From the Winters collection. (See Paperweights [Jargstorf],
p. 116) Diameter 2 1/2". $150-250
99. Val Saint
Lambert concentric millefiori colorground weight, with
six large ruffle canes around a central chartreuse, forest green,
ruby and white ruffle/cog cane, on a translucent blue ground
flecked with bits of red glass. The interior of the outer circlet
of ruffle canes is colored violet and cobalt blue. Signed on
the base. (See The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights,pp.
185-189) Diameter 3 5/16". $400-600
100. Whitefriars-type/Arculus
close concentric millefiori weight with complex cog and
quatrefoil canes in pink, powder blue, cobalt blue and white.
Diameter 3 5/8". $1000-1400
101. Whitefriars
type/Walsh-Walsh concentric millefiori weight with
circlets of complex cog and quatrefoil canes, in pink, amethyst,
lime, Persian blue and white, around a central complex cog cane.
"We know that the Arculus company was making paperweights
and inkwells in the early 1920s with fake dates, and it is probable
that Walsh-Walsh did so around the same time, or shortly afterwards.
It has been established that Walsh made paperweights before 1928,
thanks to a letter sent to the English newspaper The Daily
Express. A Mr. Parkes wrote to the Express in 1977 referring
to an article published by the newspaper on paperweights, and
went on to describe how he made cane setups for Walsh-Walsh Co.
Ltd. in January 1928, as his first job with the company. He described
in some detail how he inserted the 1848 canes in the second row
from the outside in blue letters on an opal ground. He also described
how the millefiori paperweights were ‘antiqued’ by
rubbing the bases with coarse sand ready to sell to the ‘Americans
and other so called experts’ as genuine antiques."—Old
English Paperweights.(See Old English Paperweights,pp.
108-122) Diameter 2 3/8". $300-600
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