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A JOHN GENTILE FACETED AMERICAN FLAG WEIGHT AND A WHITEFRIARS FACETED CONCENTRIC MILLEFIORI WEIGHT

THE FIRST MID-20TH CENTURY, THE UNDERSIDE WITH A JG MONOGRAM; THE SECOND WITH COMMEMORATIVE DATE FOR 1948-1978 ON A SINGLE CANE, INCISED 337. TO UNDERSIDE

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A JOHN GENTILE FACETED AMERICAN FLAG WEIGHT AND A WHITEFRIARS FACETED CONCENTRIC MILLEFIORI WEIGHT
THE FIRST MID-20TH CENTURY, THE UNDERSIDE WITH A JG MONOGRAM; THE SECOND WITH COMMEMORATIVE DATE FOR 1948-1978 ON A SINGLE CANE, INCISED 337. TO UNDERSIDE
The Gentile weight with clear glass containing a red, white and blue American Flag with thirteen stars, inscribed above and below 'OLD GLORY' on a mound of opaque white glass, cut with a top circular window and two rows of circular side printies; the Whitefriars weight with five rows of assorted blue and white millefiori canes about a central blue and white Star of David, cut with top and five circular side printies
3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm.) diameter

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The Whitefriars weight appears to be in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the creation of Israel. For a similar flag weight, see Jean S. Melvin, American Glass Paperweights and their Makers, Camden, New Jersey, 1970, p. 59. For a similar example compare, Dr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Turner, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 1 November 1984, lots 61(unillustrated).

THE FIRST MID-20TH CENTURY, THE UNDERSIDE WITH A JG MONOGRAM; THE SECOND WITH COMMEMORATIVE DATE FOR 1948-1978 ON A SINGLE CANE, INCISED 337. TO UNDERSIDE

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