Mid 20th Century Baccarat Herbert Hoover Paper Weight

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Baccarat French crystal paper weight. Sky blue and white cut to clear with a sulfide portrait cameo of Herbert Hoover. … Read more Baccarat French crystal paper weight. Sky blue and white cut to clear with a sulfide portrait cameo of Herbert Hoover. Mid century

Sulfide, paperweights, or cameos, were extremely popular in the middle of the last century, and Bacharach led in that field was readily acknowledged the world over many of the paper whites made by bike, right at that time, were among the most treasured by today’s collectors, after a coronation paperwhite, portraying, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip followed a series of cameos of American presidents, and some prominent world or historical figures none of which are any longer available Baccarat presents this edition of Herbert Hoover. The cameo is signed and dated, is the work of Albert David, the late French sculptor the addition of this sulfide paperweight was limited to 2500 pieces of the small regular size with cobalt blue background in addition 400 large pill blue overlays were made with a clear store cut background after which the cameo mold will be destroyed, so that no more can be made.

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