Owlice Greene Vintage

Things I Collect.....

Vintage lucite botanist paperweights and glass paperweights

Paperweights!  I have this round "heirloom" display table I found at the GW.  Here's a little peek inside.  I like to change out the items displayed inside seasonally, right now it has my growing collection of vintage lucite paperweights along with some butterfly "still life" dried flowers and a few glass paperweights.

The blue one in the back is a millefiori glass paperweight that my Aunt L gave me, she collected them and I must have been ogling them too much so she gave me this one.  Here's where I say it seems like all of my relatives collected stuff and I grew up infatuated with all the pretty things.....so, I blame them for my, um, "obsessions".


Millefiori Glass Paperweight

Most of my collection I've picked up over the last year or so and most of those are vintage lucite with dried flowers, butterflies, and other little buggies.  Remember the little bug family that lived in the planter outside Ernie's window on Sesame Street?  The Twiddlebugs! I thought it was so cool how they could walk around inside the plants and be in their own little jungle!  Totally wanted to be able to do that.

                                        Daffodil, "Hafod Grange Paperweights, Made in Great Britain"


Daisyglass Company, Campbell Calif.

 I have a couple of these types with straw flowers in them, different makers. 

Midton Crafts, LTD, Made in Scotland

More straw flowers, not signed

Cactus, "An Orginal Desert Preserve by McHenry of Tucson"

The first three of the vintage Lucite part of my collection I came across at the Humane Society thrift, apparently somebodies collection, I didn't know anything about them at the time but I knew I liked flowers and I liked paperweights, picked out the ones I liked best, I think it was $7 for the three.

W. Rolfe lucite paperweight

This was one of them.  A few days later I decided they were too cool and went back to pick up the ones I left behind.  Gone, of course. Boo!  Later I ended up seeing one of those at the antique mall down the street (that always happens!) and on the tag they had written the name W. Rolfe.  After some googling and closer inspection I got a little background on the ones I had picked up.


This one, the mother, "Starlight", picked out for me at another antique mall.  It's awesome!!!

Tiger Lily, ferns, queen Anne's lace and a ladybug. Signed W. Rolfe

Apparently W. Rolfe was a botanist who started taking plant specimens and embedding them into lucite making them into permanent studies of the plants he loved and enjoyed. It blows my mind how he managed to pose all these little fragile things together into these awesome artworks. This one has a ladybug at the top.

And I found this one the other day, probs at GW.

Woodland scene lucite paperweight, signed W. Rolfe

Woodland scene complete with lichen covered wood branch, rocks, several types if plants, a butterfly, floating seed pod, and a bug.
Just so cool!

I don't have any paperweights in my Etsy shop  http://www.etsy.com/shop/OwliceandStone but you should check it out anyway! :)  I Just opened it, and will be adding lots of new items over the next couple weeks.


Thanks for reading! 
Owlice