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Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 73 Sandwich Glass Company double clematis paperweight composed of ten cobalt blue petals around a central pink and yellow center. The whorl of the flower's center has a pearly seashell quality. The vividness of the petals is framed with a short green stem and five serrated leaves; white double-swirl latticinio (See The Boston & Sandwich and New England Glass Companies, pp. 140-141). Diameter 2 3/4" Estimate: $800 - 1200
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 74 Rare Sandwich Glass Company blue and yellow speckled white wheatflower paperweight with a complex cane center and green leaves on a swirling white latticinio cushion. "Sandwich employed latticinio very rarely, usually only in the mixed fruit weights, with an occasional flower... for variety."-The Art of the Paperweight-The Boston & Sandwich and New England Glass Companies. Diameter 3 1/8". Estimate: $1500 - 2500
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 75 New England Glass Company double-tiered blue poinsettia paperweight with white complex cane center and green leaves on double-swirl white latticinio. "According to some authorities, (New England Glass Company) led all New England glasshouses in the production of high-quality glassware."-Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom Art Center. Diameter 3 1/4". Estimate: $800 - 950
Click on the image to enlarge Click here for another view	Lot 76 Gillinder concentric millefiori paperweight, composed of complex cog canes; five and one facets. The claret color seems to seep out from within the heart of the snow-white bloom of millefiori. "With few Victorian exceptions... paperweights were critically ignored; naturally enough, since in the Victorian emporium of objects of unparalleled hideousness, of aesthetic horribilia on the grand scale, paperweights were almost the only genuinely beautiful objects made, and being small, were easily passed over."-The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights. Diameter 2 1/2". Estimate: $2250 - 3000
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 77 Rare Gillinder concentric millefiori paperweight with a central Queen Victoria silhouette, encircled by two rings of complex canes, in a white stave basket. "...(American) designs were freely interchanged, and there was traffic between companies in the canes themselves."-Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom Art Center. Diameter 2 13/16". Estimate: $3000 - 4000
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 78 Sandwich Glass Company fruit paperweight with a formal arrangement of fruit containing five blushing pears and four ruby cherries, nestled in a bed of green leaves on a double-swirl latticinio basket. Diameter 2 5/8". Estimate: $450 - 600