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Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 78 Whitefriars antique crystal goblet containing concentric millefiori in alternating rings of blue, pink and white; flared mouth, with clear stem and base. The central cane appears white overall. Height 5". $450-650
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 79 Whitefriars antique crystal goblet containing concentric millefiori in alternating rings of blue, pink and white; flared mouth, with clear stem and base. The central cane appears red overall. Height 5 1/16". $450-650
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 80 Bohemian antique glass doorknob with a large, sectioned, white stardust center cane, encircled by a ring of green, pink and white canes, and a border of red, white and blue canes, on clear ground; metal base, mounted on a square lucite stand. Minor scratches over surface. Diameter 2". $600-800
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 81 Bohemian antique glass doorknob with a central pink and white complex cane, encircled by a ring of green, pink and white canes, and a border of red, white and blue canes, on clear ground; metal base, mounted on a square lucite stand. Minor scratches over surface. Diameter 2". $600-800
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 82 Baccarat antique sulphide of Napoleon III in profile paperweight, on a translucent cobalt blue ground. "In 1819, Apsley Pellatt, published Memoir on the Origin, Progress, and Improvement of Glass Manufactures, …chiefly written to publicize his patent of that year for 'cameo-incrustation' or the insertion of clay-silica cameos (today colloquially 'sulphides') into glass. This technique was borrowed from the Frenchman Boudon de Saint-Amans, who had received a similar patent for 'cristallo-ceramie' the previous year (1818). Sulphide heads and busts of royalty, the nobility, and allegorical subjects appeared in the first two decades of the century in pendant medallions, plaques, and on the sides of glass vessels. Sulphides would appear later in glass paperweights." -Paperweights from the Henry Melville Fuller Collection. Diameter 2 1/8". $400-550
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 83 Rare antique sulphide commemorative paperweight shows the building for The Great Exhibition of Industry of All Nations in London, 1851, with sky and lettering in blue powder. Signed on reverse "Martoret." It is difficult now, to imagine what the Crystal Palace was and what it meant in 1851. …It was to be done in glass and iron, materials new to building, and on a grid iron plan that was to become the basis of skyscraper construction a half-century later. The Crystal Palace was completed in 17 weeks. (The Exhibition of 1851), …was a success, forever changing the world of glass. "The exhibition," wrote Queen Victoria in her diary, "goes to prove that we are capable of doing almost anything." (See, pp 36-38, The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights.) Diameter 2 3/4". $800-1000