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Extremely rare antique American Port Elizabeth magnum frit paperweight, featuring a large red, g...

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Extremely rare antique American Port Elizabeth magnum frit paperweight, featuring a large red, g...
Extremely rare antique American Port Elizabeth magnum frit paperweight, featuring a large red, green, and blue pansy, on a curved stem with two green leaves, on powdery white ground. A spaced ring of small blue flowers accent a scalloped brown border. There is some question whether these are truly American weights or if they were produced by the Val St. Lambert factory in Belgium. "But it must be remembered that a great number of Belgian glassworkers came to Southern Jersey to work in the glasshouses in the Millville area. It could be that those glassmen transplanted this Belgian free-hand frit technique to the Millville factories in America...As more of these frit examples come to light, further research may someday solve the enigma of their origin." -Identifying Antique Paperweights: The Less Familiar. Diameter 4 3/8". $4500-6000