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October 13, 2000

Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 43 Saint Louis pompon paperweight. The flower, with feathered white petals around a small complex blue and yellow millefiori cane, blooms on a stalk with a white bud and variegated emerald green leaves, over a white double-swirl latticinio ground, with translucent pink glass sandwiched between the swirls of the filigree. "Unlike Baccarat, the flower petals here are often carefully bled out into the surrounding clear glass, giving the flower a gossamer quality that is one of the triumphs of paperweight-making." -The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights. Some striation in the dome. Diameter 2 15/16". Estimate: $2750 - 3500
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 44 Saint Louis large blue double clematis paperweight with green leaves and stems, on swirling white latticinio; side facets. "These flowers do not occur so frequently as the dahlia, about one in six of the St. Louis flower type being a clematis. The flowers are usually double, with gentian blue... and yellow centres..." -Paperweights and Other Glass Curiosities. Diameter 3". Estimate: $2000 - 2750
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 45 Saint Louis yellow-centered feathery white pompon paperweight with green leaves, a tight bud and stem, on a double-swirl pink latticinio cushion. Diameter 2 13/16". Estimate: $2750 - 3500
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 46 Saint Louis flat pansy bouquet paperweight over a clear ground; side facets and fancy-cut top. Impressionistic lampwork in the pansy and a singular blue and white star cane in its companion blue flower. Pastry tip leaves, showing great detail, frame the bouquet in citrus green. Diameter 3 1/16" Estimate: $2250 - 3000
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 47 Saint Louis salmon pink pompon paperweight paperweight with a complex cane center, a pink bud and green leaves, on a double-swirl white latticinio cushion. The suppleness in the flower's petals is palpable, they almost seem to unfold before your eyes. "Like their American counterparts, Saint-Louis pom-poms often indent their grounds, imparting a wave to the latticinio."-Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society. Diameter 3". Estimate: $3000 - 3750
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 48 Saint Louis "true fuchsia" paperweight, showcasing the signature pink and blue fuchsia blossom, with red buds and green leaves, attached to a mauve stem, on a swirling white latticinio cushion. "Only one true St. Louis flower in ten is a fuchsia."-Paperweights and Other Glass Curiosities. Diameter 2 7/8". Estimate: $3000 - 4000