Don't Forget Mother! Antique Frit Glass Motto Paperweight doll with carved wooden head and the pattern and color

and the pattern and color of the stacked bits on the sides was too good to resist

great attitude

easy to open and holds tightly closed

5 1/2" tall x 2 1/16 in diameter

Don't Forget Mother! Antique Frit Glass Motto Paperweight doll with carved wooden head and the pattern and colorI've become very taken with old frit glass sentiment motto paperweights (frit essentially means ground glass, used for the text, which floats inside the clear glass orb about midway up). To me they feel close kin to the old silver foil and reverse painted scalloped glass signs that have come so precious, and it is my feeling that these paperweights will become increasingly coveted too, because they're so great looking and of a nice small scale to