glass paperweights don't break easily, and they are fake free.'' At last count, Leo Kaplan, whose antiques shop is at 967 Madison Avenue, at 75th Street, had 350 antique glass paperweights for sale at $250 to $80,000 apiece. It has all kinds of weights Fewer, though, know him as the owner of one of the world's greatest glass paperweight collections. The Art Institute of Chicago had a collection of antique paperweights from as far back as the 1930s. Then Rubloff began donating some of his pieces He was one of a small group of collectors and scholars, who along with some key American, French and Scottish glass artists, helped generate the paperweight renaissance in the second half of the twentieth century. The expansion of the paperweight exhibit When Keren Hoover was 15, her parents returned from a trip to Italy with three paperweights for her. The small glass orbs were millefiore-style paperweights, one of the most popular designs, holding a diminutive glass world of hundreds of tiny flowers The work is more than 13 inches in diameter and is comprised of more than 30 layers of glass. The occasion is the opening of the Museum exhibition, “Worlds Within: The Evolution of the Paperweight,” a display of rare and exceptional paperweights Art Glass Collectors often overlook paperweights. Art Glass paperweights are a fun and fascinating subset of glass collecting. Some of the more notable producers are Parabelle, Orient and Flume, Baccarat, Caithness, St. Louis, Steuben, Lalique, Charles .
CORNING, N.Y., Nov. 16 (UPI) -- The world's largest glass paperweight, entitled Megaplanet, made its official debut Thursday at the Cornish Museum of Glass in Corning, N.Y. The 107-pound glass structure became the 1,000th paperweight to join the museum's The Mt. Pleasant Glass Museum celebrates an often unrecognized part of this region's glass industry with its first traveling exhibit of glass paperweights. The exhibit runs through June 15. Cassandra Vivian, executive director of the museum, said that This week at the Akron Art Museum the world's largest collection of Paul Stankard's glass paperweights was installed in a new permanent display case above the museum's lobby. Clevelander Mike Belkin has donated 64 of the 300 Stankard pieces he purchased It is not what most would consider a dangerous hobby. But a glass paperweight nearly cost one collector his life after it caught the sun's rays and set his home on fire. Matthew Williams, who has collected paperweights for seven years, woke to find his .
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