Aktlen Glass Company Dresden, Modernist Advertising Paperweight with Embedded Wire Mesh Grid handmade horse and the carved disks at

and the carved disks at the corners of hex stars

very early 20th century first hand document of a burning oil tank in Parker

This snuff box feels more carnivalesque

Almost no loss to the original green paint on its eyes

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Aktlen Glass Company Dresden, Modernist Advertising Paperweight with Embedded Wire Mesh Grid handmade horse and the carved disks atJust recently I've been paying some attention to antique and vintage glass advertising paperweights most of them not of much interest to me, but occasionally one comes across one with a really interesting or unusual graphic. Like this one! I believe it is Bauhaus era, made by the Aktlen Industrial Glass Company in Dresden, Germany c. 1920s 30s, with the red lettering printed on transparent film suspended inside the glass, and then a layer of wire mesh