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Glossary of Paperweight Terms
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Date cane Baccarat
 
A millefiori cane with numerals or a letter identifying the year of manufacture.
 
Decorative paperweight Zellique Glass and Grant 
Randolph Studios
 
A paperweight produced in unlimited editions, usually unsigned or signed with a paper seal, and moderately priced for beginning collectors; not investment quality.
 
Design   The internal decoration of a paperweight.
 
Devil's fire   A swirling, mottled motif used by Millville.
 
Diameter   The most commonly used physical measure of a paperweight.
 
Diamond cut   A many-faceted cutting pattern used to decorate the outside of a weight, usually the base.
 
Disc   See template
 
Dome   See crown
 
Doorstop   A very large paperweight, primarily manufactured by English bottlemakers and American glasshouses in the midwest.
 
Double overlay   See overlay
 
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Glossary text from The Art of the Paperweight used courtesy of L. H. Selman Ltd.

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