TWO SAINT LOUIS LATTICINIO STRAIGHT-EDGES
PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY
Each octagonally faceted rod with a central spiral composed of latticinio threads in red or blue within two outer twisted ribbons of white latticinio
¾ in. (1.9 cm.) diameter; 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) long, the larger (2)
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See Geraldine J. Casper, Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Richmond, Virginia, 1989, p. 68, fig. 153 for another example thought to be Saint Louis.
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