Don't Forget Mother! Antique Frit Glass Motto Paperweight doll with carved wooden head pretty excellent

pretty excellent

though I can't look at a gold-painted monkey without thinking of Jeff Koons' Michael and Bubbles

easy to open and holds tightly closed

from where they were touching during firing

Don't Forget Mother! Antique Frit Glass Motto Paperweight doll with carved wooden head pretty excellentI've become very taken with old frit glass sentiment motto paperweights (frit essentially means ground glass, used for the text, which floats inside the clear glass orb about midway up). To me they feel close kin to the old silver foil and reverse painted scalloped glass signs that have come so precious, and it is my feeling that these paperweights will become increasingly coveted too, because they're so great looking and of a nice small scale to