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micro paper weight
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This is my very first micro-paperweight, made all in the torch with
no glory hole or anything, so please forgive me for taking lots
of pictures of it -- I'm going to give it away as a gift soon.
It started out to be a large marble, about 1.5in diam or so,
but with the very cold ambient temp in my workspace it was hard
to handle and very hard to round; so I flattened the bottom and
called it a micro paperweight!
It is a floral plunge with 2 layers. The main body of the piece
was built on a Czech alexandrite rod (a good strong pontil!),
and the remaining encasing glass is Effetre VPA. This is a pretty
good compatibility test of those two glasses :-) There is a visible
discontinuity between the two, along the contour formed by
the plunge, underneath the flower.
I took pics of it both in sunlight and Ott light and at various
angles, trying to document all its little peculiarities.
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| sunlight 1 |
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| sunlight 2 |
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| sunlight 3 |
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| sun side |
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| sun bottom |
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| sunlight 4 |
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| sunlight 5 |
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| flash 1 |
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| ottlight 1 |
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| ottlight side |
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| ottlight side2 |
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| ottlight side3 |
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| ottlight 3/4 |
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