Aktlen Glass Company Dresden, Modernist Advertising Paperweight with Embedded Wire Mesh Grid lion whether frames or boxes or

whether frames or boxes or whatever

Useful still for pulling straight lines

a long and tall ball in cage feeling as much a modernist sculpture as a whimsy

recessed sides

Aktlen Glass Company Dresden, Modernist Advertising Paperweight with Embedded Wire Mesh Grid lion whether frames or boxes orJust 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