Art of the Paperweight:
The Boston & Sandwich Glass Company
by: John D. Hawley
2017, Paperweight Press, Chicago, IL
134 pages, $35.00
FOREWORD: “...
Besides his meticulous research into the history of the two factories and their workers, Hawley used his impressive scientific background to further test and document the specific gravity and ultraviolet fluorescence of every paperweight he was able to handle. He then illustrated and explained his complicated information in such a way that a layman could understand.
Never ceasing his careful research into both companies over the following years, Hawley realized the significance of the new information he had gathjered and the individual importance of each companies paperweight production. In 2011, he authored The Art of the Paperweight, The New England Glass Company which quickly became the authoritative resource on the subject.
Now in this new volume, The Art of the Paperweight, The Boston & Sandwich Glass Company, the author shares with us his latest findings. Hawley clearly reveals the Sandwich style which was unlike the New England production of sophisticated designs and colored overlay. Sandwich paperweights with their fanciful flowers and artistic freedom were geared towards the middle class. The famous glassworker, Nicolas Lutz, emerges as the major maker of Sandwich weights. Containing new charts, new photographs of weights, and additional close-ups of canes, the publication is the definitive reference on paperweights made at the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company”.
Gay LeClaire Taylor
Former Director/ Curator
Museum of American Glass at
Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center
