Paperweight
Classification:
Date:
1922
Medium:
Metal, felt
Dimensions:
Overall: 3/8 x 2 1/2 in. ( 1 x 6.4 cm )
Description:
Metal paperweight embossed "New York Title and Mortgage Company/ 1901-1922", with a central image of the building marked "205 Montague Street/ Brooklyn".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.28
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1922
eMuseum Object ID:
47153
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Paperweight
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1870-1920
Medium:
Tile
Dimensions:
Overall: 1/4 x 3 in. ( 0.6 x 7.6 cm )
Description:
Faux Wedgwood style paperweight, wedgwood blue with a white cameo portrait bust of Abraham Lincoln in profile. Embossed on bottom "The Mosaic Tile/ Company/ Zanesville Ohio/ New York/ NY" with a monogram MTC.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.27
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
47152
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Paperweight
Classification:
Date:
c a.1890-1940
Medium:
Ceramic, felt
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/2 x 3 in. ( 3.8 x 7.6 cm )
Description:
Light blue ceramic paperweight embossed "United States of America/ Department of the Navy" with a central American eagle.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.26
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
47151
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Paperweight
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1880-1920
Medium:
Glass, silk, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 5/8 x 4 in. ( 4.1 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Clear glass half-spherical paperweight, hollow, with acid-etched words on the top surface reading "American Silk Spinning Co./ Providence R.I." Inside the glass dome is a silk moth, a silk worm in a glass tube, silk worm eggs, a cocoon, and samples of fiber marked "combed stock", "spun silk", and "dyed spun silk". A paper glued to the bottom gives the history and explains the process of silk making.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.25
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
47147
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Paperweight
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1880-1920
Medium:
Red brick
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 5/8 x 1 7/8 x 2 1/8 in. ( 9.2 x 4.8 x 5.4 cm )
Description:
Made of red brick, this paperweight is inscribed "Sumter Brick Works" on one side and "So Darned Ugly They Are Beautiful" on the other. A reclining dog is molded into the top and the words "Airedale Brick" mark each end.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.24
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
47142
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Paperweight
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1880-1940
Medium:
Marble, paint
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 5/8 x 3 x 1 1/8 in. ( 11.7 x 7.6 x 2.9 cm )
Description:
This white marble paperweight is engraved Krum & Gebhard (Cebhard? damage to stone) on one large face and the other large face has a handpainted image of a birdhouse on a tree trunk and 2 birds, one carrying a branch, in shades of gray and brown paint.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.23
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
47141
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Paperweight
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1880-1920
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
7/8 x 4 x 2 3/8 in.
Description:
Clear glass with a white glass bottom that reads through the glass: Magee Furnace Co./ Makers of the Highest Grades/ Heating and Cooking/
Apparatus for all Uses/ 32-38 Union St. Boston./ Established 1856/ Incorporated 1868/ 86 Lake St. Chicago/; with a central image of a factory complex. Paperweight Patented Nov. 29-92. Two of Two identical see 2002.1.75
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.151
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
47094
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Paperweight
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1880-1920
Medium:
Glass, paper, photo
Dimensions:
: 3/4 x 4 x 2 1/2 in.
Description:
Clear glass paperweight with a paper insert in the bottom that has a photo print of a large inn with a horse and a veranda that reads through the glass: Carleton House, Saratoga.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.150
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
47093
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Paperweight
Classification:
Date:
1882-1900
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
: 5/8 x 4 x 2 1/2 in.
Description:
Clear glass with a white enamel bottom that reads through the glass in black and green: New York/ Hotel Review/ Magazine/ Charles E. Gehring/ Managing Editor/ Subscription Price $1.00 per Year/ 1269 Broadway, New York City.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.149
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
47092
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Paperweight
Classification:
Date:
1880-1920
Medium:
Glass, silvering
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 4 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. ( 2.5 x 11.4 x 7 cm )
Description:
This molded patterned rectangular clear glass paperweight has a mirrored insert in the top that is acid etched : The/ Germania/ Life/ Insurance Company/ of New York. Mirroring is tarnished.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.148
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
47091
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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