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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 216470, member: 111"]Not unusual to have a handle on a paperweight, but this is, as already suggested, a marriage (personally, would call it a 'make-do'). Hard to tell on my phone, but it appears to have a piece in the center that was also glued - if so, would lead me to think that the handle was originally the lid to a mucilage/glue pot, similar to the LaPierre piece linked below. The 'B' prefix on the Gorham production code was used starting in 1898 on, among other things, desk accessories...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://m.ebay.com/itm/152429848817?_mwBanner=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://m.ebay.com/itm/152429848817?_mwBanner=1" rel="nofollow">http://m.ebay.com/itm/152429848817?_mwBanner=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 216470, member: 111"]Not unusual to have a handle on a paperweight, but this is, as already suggested, a marriage (personally, would call it a 'make-do'). Hard to tell on my phone, but it appears to have a piece in the center that was also glued - if so, would lead me to think that the handle was originally the lid to a mucilage/glue pot, similar to the LaPierre piece linked below. The 'B' prefix on the Gorham production code was used starting in 1898 on, among other things, desk accessories... [URL]http://m.ebay.com/itm/152429848817?_mwBanner=1[/URL] ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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