Aktlen Glass Company Dresden, Modernist Advertising Paperweight with Embedded Wire Mesh Grid mid-century brass object I have enough French to

I have enough French to get the gist of the text at left

if this were a different sort of sampler they might feel detracting

as well as description of spats caused by lost letters and misunderstandings and one boyfriend spotting her with another

the blue of his shirt really is Yves Klein blue--like pure powdered pigment--and the green of his pants really does almost glow

and then these two tiny players at lower left

Aktlen Glass Company Dresden, Modernist Advertising Paperweight with Embedded Wire Mesh Grid mid-century brass object I have enough French toJust 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