Aktlen Glass Company Dresden, Modernist Advertising Paperweight with Embedded Wire Mesh Grid mid-century brass object Connecticut

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often but not always with one "white" side and one "black"-- here with the two sides pretty much exact mirrors of one another

I love the thought of serving soup or oatmeal in these

but stable and sound and nice to hold

I have enough French to get the gist of the text at left

Aktlen Glass Company Dresden, Modernist Advertising Paperweight with Embedded Wire Mesh Grid mid-century brass object ConnecticutJust 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