Aktlen Glass Company Dresden, Modernist Advertising Paperweight with Embedded Wire Mesh Grid lion recessed sides

recessed sides

Useful still for pulling straight lines

whether frames or boxes or whatever

(The front door looks as if it might open

as all were important figures in the ceramics community of Nova Scotia during the second half of the 20th century

Aktlen Glass Company Dresden, Modernist Advertising Paperweight with Embedded Wire Mesh Grid lion recessed sidesJust 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