Aktlen Glass Company Dresden, Modernist Advertising Paperweight with Embedded Wire Mesh Grid handmade horse 4 3/4" x 3 3/4"

4 3/4" x 3 3/4"

I just find it amazing

and the carved disks at the corners of hex stars

really lovely things I think

3 1/16" l x 1 1/8" w x 1/2" t

Aktlen Glass Company Dresden, Modernist Advertising Paperweight with Embedded Wire Mesh Grid handmade horse 4 3/4" x 3 3/4"Just recently I've been paying some attention to antique and vintage glass advertising paperweights most of them not of much interest to me, but occasionally one comes across one with a really interesting or unusual graphic. Like this one! I believe it is Bauhaus era, made by the Aktlen Industrial Glass Company in Dresden, Germany c. 1920s 30s, with the red lettering printed on transparent film suspended inside the glass, and then a layer of wire mesh