by Lawrence H. Selman & Linda Pope-Selman
Subtitled: An illustrated history and identification guide for antique and modern paperweights
This was the first of the books about Glass Paperweights by Larry Selman. Written with Linda Pope-Selman, the book is filled with the authors' enthusiasm for paperweights and paperweight collecting. It does a wonderful job of covering the history, varieties, methods of making, and all other aspects of paperweights.
This book is one of my all time personal favorites. It devotes considerable space to the art of making paperweights and paperweight identification. It is also one of the few books to include good pictures of better quality Chinese weights from the 1930s.
178 pages plus 8 preliminary pages (186 pages in all)
with 311 figures. Many pictures in color.
8 1/2" by 11 1/4".
Hard bound. 1975.
Sections are:
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- How Paperweights are Made
- A Brief Introductory History of Paperweight Manufacture During the Classical Period (c.1840-1870)
- Baccarat
- St. Louis
- Clichy
- English Factories
- American Factories
- A Practical Guide to the Identification of Antique Glass Paperweights
- General Characteristics
- Millefiori Canes
- Random Spacing Schemes
- Patterned Spacing Schemes
- Special Millefiori Paperweight Types
- Representational Paperweights
- Bottleweights
- The Paperweight Renaissance - The Factories
- Baccarat
- St. Louis
- Cristalleries et Verrieries de Vianne (Cristal d'Albret)
- Perthshire Paperweights
- Chinese Paperweights
- The Paperweight Renaissance - The Studio Artists
- Francis Dyer Whittemore, Jr.
- Paul Joseph Stankard
- Charles Kaziun
- Paul Ysart
- Harold J. Hacker
- John Choko and Pete Lewis
- Robert Hansen
- Ronald Hansen
- A. F. Carpenter
- Carolyn M. and Hugh E. Smith
- Joseph S. Barker
- Ray and Robert Banford
- Other Glass Artists
- New Directions in Paperweights
- Dominick Labino
- Lundberg Studios
- Charles Lotton
- Collecting Paperweights
- What Makes a Paperweight Valuable?
- The Large Collections
- What Kinds of Weights Should I Collect?
- Purchasing Paperweights
- Glossary
- Bibliography of Paperweight Literature
- Index
