Intaglio Paperweight - Hercules Category_accessories/Boxes & Waste paper Bins please visit the World Animal

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and we’ve used his superb

5cm x Bottom Diameter 30

backed with a different coloured lacquer and a topcoat of glossy varnish

Harvest Glaze

Intaglio Paperweight - Hercules Category_accessories/Boxes & Waste paper Bins please visit the World AnimalBelieve it or not paperweights were part of a showcase of international artistic innovation at The Great Exhibition of 1851. Paperweights were viewed as luxury items that satisfied the C19th taste for ornamentation, but were inexpensive to make. Letter writing was a popular activity at the time and paperweights became a fashionable and economical way to decorate a home while keeping papers organisedin drafty rooms Over time experimentations and new