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Click on the image to enlarge Lot 90 Czechoslovakian three-dimensional sulphide paperweight with a lion in repose in a light brown gazebo, on green, blue, red and white jasper ground; geometric facets with pointed top. Height 3 7/8". Estimate: $450 - 600

Click on the image to enlarge Lot 91 Millville frit paperweight depicting a white sailing ship, over a clear, footed pedestal base. Height 3 3/4". Estimate: $1200 - 2000

Click on the image to enlarge Lot 92 Val St. Lambert sulphide paperweight of an unknown bearded man in uniform, (possibly Leopold II, king of Belgium, 1865-1909) surrounded by a pea green, grey and white twist on translucent cobalt blue ground. While little documentation is available on Val St. Lambert weights, this Belgian factory "was founded in 1825, the same year the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company was founded. ...The company prospered from the beginning and, from time to time, bought and absorbed other factories. In 1878 it employed 1,600 workers and by 1896 the number had risen to 7,872."-The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights. From the A. Christian Revi collection. Diameter 3 3/4" Estimate: $250 - 500

Click on the image to enlarge Lot 93 Sulphide paperweight of an unidentified man on clear ground. "(Sulphides)...with a silvery look imparted to the white clay by the thin pocket of air between the cameo and the enclosing glass."-Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society Diameter 2 1/16". Estimate: $200 - 300

Click on the image to enlarge Lot 94 Saint Louis pressed lion paperweight, the frosted feline rendition reposes on a fancy ribbed glass base. Signed "St. Louis" on the base. "What is not well known is that the Cristalleries de St. Louis also produced pressed weights during the period 1875 to 1880."-Annual Bulletin of the Paperweight Collectors Association, Inc. (1998) p. 47. Length 5 5/8", Height 2 11/16" Estimate: $200 - 300

Click on the image to enlarge Click here for another view Lot 95 French sulphide paperweight with a cameo of Napoleon III in profile, over clear ground. Diameter 3 1/4". Estimate: $200 - 300

Click on the image to enlarge Lot 96 Baccarat circular plaque paperweight with a sulphide cameo of J. Francois Regnard, after a medal by Joseph Eugene Dubois. Diameter 2 1/8". Estimate: $300 - 450

Click on the image to enlarge Lot 97 Art Nouveau advertising paperweight for the U. S. Glass Co., Pittsburgh, PA, the pressed glass oval decorated with the profile of a young woman with an olive wreath in her hair, in relief, circled by a band of gold beads, also in relief. Width 2 3/4"; Length 4 7/16"; Thickness 7/8" Estimate: $100 - 150

Click on the image to enlarge Lot 98 Miscellaneous crystal marble with the three-dimensional sulphide of a girl wearing a long, hooded cape. Diameter 1 3/4". Estimate: $100 - 150