There are also paperweights from England, France, Italy, Sweden and China. All of them are remarkably delicate and exhaustingly intricate.

View Four Royal Crown Derby limited edition paperweights - Pacific Angel Fish, no. 82 of 2500, Cheshire Cat, no. 449 of 500, Frog, no. 102 of 500 and Lion Cub, no. 1096 of 1500 (first two are boxed w ...

Yet even Capote could imagine other uses for them. In his story Shut a Final Door, the hero takes aim, with one of his paperweights, at an errant pigeon frolicking on the ledge of an open window.

Paperweights first appeared in Europe in the mid-1840s, according to the Corning Museum of Glass. Venetian glass-maker Pietro Bigaglia created and exhibited the first signed and dated weights at ...