Last update: 19 November 2006 Do be careful when buying paperweights. Attributions, especially to classic manufacturers such as Baccarat, St. Louis, and Clichy, are sometimes wrong - not because of any intent...
The term "Trade Beads" typically applies to beads made predominately in Venice and Bohemia and other European countries from the late 1400s through to the early 1900s and traded in Africa and the Americas....
First Edition 1969 by Paul Hollister Jr. with 140 weights in full colour and 250 in black and white. A comprehensive study of glass paperweights. Encyclopedic in scope and copiously illustrated, it surveys...