St. Louis

An unrecorded weight, but clear evidence that the 1974 red honeycomb was not the first of its kind! Probably a trial weight, as it is considerably smaller than its successors. It has 7 rows of perfectly set, white-edged “C” canes in a light slate-blue colour, which changes to a darker shade as the w..

A large weight with a design based on a 19th Century St. Louis pattern featuring 3 pink & white and 3 green & pale-blue tear-shaped millefiori garlands on an opaque, red ground underlaid with white. The garlands are arranged around a large feature cane with a ring of lilac & white corrugated tubes, ..

Set on a pedestal foot of swirling white filigree, 9 concentric rows of complex millefiori canes encircle a centre cane.  Although not perfectly centred, the rows themselves are meticulously set.  Colours range from blue & turquoise to green, pink & red. A black, white & blue SL1972 signature/date c..

Resembling doilies, 6 clusters of red, pistachio & white tubes, pink & yellow tubes, white stars and red, blue & white cog canes are arranged over a translucent blue ground.Set between two of the doilies is a blue/white SL1972 signature/date cane. Polished, concave base with a broad basal rim...

Set around a complex cane in red, white, blue and chartreuse are 6 rows of white cogs lined in blue with a white rod in the centre. The final row of finer, similarly-coloured canes, forms a basket, which is pulled underneath and neatly finished off in a small circle.A small blue-and-white SL 1972 si..

5 clusters of complex star/cog canes around a similar central cluster in red, white, green & chartreuse set in a carpet of white, pink & blue composite canes. The outer row is pulled underneath into the polished concave base.A small black/white SL1972 signature/date cane is set near the outer edge. ..

This weight is not to be found in St. Louis catalogues or Gérard Ingold’s book “The Art of the Paperweight - Saint Louis” but was perhaps a trial design for the 1972 pink carpet ground with millefiori roundels. Set around a composite  red, white & black tube cane, is a carpet of red-lined, white cog..

The opaque white ground is divided into 4 panels. Emanating from the SL1971 signature/date cane at the top of the weight are alternating blue & pistachio swags which fill the 4 panels with colour.There is slight wear on the broad basal rim surrounding the polished, concave base.  ..

A modern marbrie was first introduced with the 2nd Annual Limited Editions in 1971. This one was possibly a trial or a commemorative because its special feature is that the red & green "swags" have been “combed” to the centre of each of the 4 quadrants.Signed with a red/white SL1971 date cane. Polis..

The clear crystal encases a 6-point red, white and pink star composed of 3 different types of millefiori, set around a central SL1971 signature/date cane over an opaque white cushion.Cut with a circular top window and 6 side facets.The polished base is concave with a wide basal rim.This weight is no..

Although this design is usually associated with antique Clichy weights, St. Louis chose it for one of its first annual limited editions. Issuing from a chartreuse & white SL1971 signature/date cane, opaque white latticinio threads swirl over a translucent sapphire-blue core. The whole arrangement is..

The pistachio-on-white double overlay is cut with a top window and 5 side facets ro reveal a centre “star” consisting of white & pink canes outlined by a row of coral-pink, white & green cogs. Filling the spaces to form a hexagon, are complex canes in blue, white & red and chartreuse, white & red. T..