[GreenKeys] Bell Paperweights

[Douglas W. Jones]

I was at an antique fair on the 4th and met a dealer there who had a
small stock of Bell System paperweights.  These are deep blue glass
from the 1920's, shaped like the bell of the Bell System logo.  They
came in two sizes, small (listing atx $100) and large (listing at
$200) (but note, many dealers at that fair were quite happy to
dicker), and they were made with cast lettering and with etched
lettering (no price difference, but I certainly liked the etched
ones more).  Most of his said simply Bell System or Bell Telephone
Company, but one was likely to be a bit more interesting to this
list, a big one, with etched lettering on one side:

     Western
     Electric

and on the other side:

     Telephone and Telegraph
     Apparatus & Supplies

The dealer said they were from the 1920's.

The dealer was Corxky's Workshop of Springfield Nebraska,
corky1143@aol.com.
					Doug Jones
					jones@cs.uiowa.edu