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Title
Two glass paperweights
Physical Description
2 glass paperweights : glass, tinted paper ; 4 1/2" x 3 1/4" x 3/4" and 4 x 2" x 5/8" x 3/4"., (12 x 9 x 2 cm. and 11 x 7 x 2 cm.)
Date
circa 1918, 1919
Summary
Two paperweights, each with a view of a town in Germany:
2019.30a: The larger paperweight contains a tinted color photograph of a river view of the town of Hönningen a. Rhein in Rhineland-Palatinate. Verso: an illegible handwritten note and the date “1918“.
2019.30b: The smaller paperweight contains a tinted color photograph with a view of the Kriegerwaisenhaus (Warriors’ Orphanage) in the town of Römhild in Thuringia. Verso: "Zur Erinnerung gewidmet von Deiner Freundin [illegible first name] Parker, 1919”.
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Citation
Two glass paperweights, Leo Baeck Institute, 2019.30a-b.