St. Louis

Set on a filigree double-swirl pedestal foot with 2 white twist torsades are 9 concentric rows of millefiori canes around a small central star cane.  The rows are meticulously set, with virtually no slippage.  Colours range from red, pink & blue to pale-green, white & ochre. There is no signature/da..

Encirling the millefiori centre cane - a cluster of tubes & crimps - are 6 rings of complex and simple cog & star canes. The overall tonality is blue (in various shades) relieved by hints of green, white and red. Pink & white torsades decorate the top and bottom of the white latticinio pedestal.An S..

Few piedouche weights were produced in 1953 & 1954. Set on a pedestal foot - with double-swirl latticinio and 2 pink & white twist torsades - are 6 concentric rows of millefiori canes around a central composite cane. The rows are meticulously set, with virtually no slippage. Colours range from pink,..

A spaced concentric on a thin layer of upset muslin with 15 millefiori canes set in 2 rings around a centre cane. Some of the canes are relatively simple - white stars, for example, set in colourful cogs but the majority of the millefiori canes are quite complex for such an early weight. A wide rang..

A rare early lampwork flower from St Louis: a pale-blue double clematis with ribbed petals set around a white millefiori cane centre. The short curving stem bears 2 green leaves. Seen from the front, the bottom half of the stem is perfectly in place - on the back view, however, you can see that, in ..

A closepack mushroom with a dark-blue SL1953 signature/date cane in a tomato-red on white double overlay, cut with a top window and 5 side facets. The colours of the millefiori canes - ranging from yellow, pink & white to red, blue & green - are pale in comparison with those found in St Louis’ antiq..

One of the early weights produced shortly after the company started making paperweights again in the 1950s... a mushroom in a dark-green on white double overlay, cut with an unusual scalloped top facet and 5 side facets. The millefiori canes in the tuft are relatively simple and the overall tonality..

Set on a latticinio basket - with 2 white spiral torsades around the pedestal foot - the tightly-packed cushion has a good selection of millefiori canes in the subdued colours typical for the revival of paperweight production at the company in the early 1950s.An SL1953 signature /date cane is set cl..

Probably made in the early 1950s, this concentric mushroom is attributed to St. Louis - although it has no signature/date cane, but it came from a collection of early St Louis paperweights. Relatively-complex canes - in shades of deep-pink, blue, white and green - with the outer row forming a taperi..

A rare early 1950s closepack. Due to the different height of the canes the surface is uneven and a small “dimple” on top of the dome spoils the profile. Maybe it doesn’t have the brilliance of 19th century weights, or the perfection of post-1970 weights, but this is probably one of the first 20th Ce..