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Glossary of Paperweight Terms
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Newel post   A paperweight post at the end or foot of a flight of stairs, supporting a handrail.
 
Non-furnace work   Glass objects made by artists who purchase already formulated glass and melt it, as needed, with a torch .
 
Nosegay (or flat bouquet) Saint Louis
 
A paperweight motif consisting of a flat bouquet using millefiori canes as flowers.
 
 
 
Opaline   A flat rectangular or bookshaped paperweight, made of opaque or translucent opaline glass, with a slightly raised oval medalion, nosegay, or other millefiori design encased within; a specialty of Clichy.
 
Overlay Ray Banford
 
A paperweight that has been coated with one (single overlay), two (double overlay), or three (triple overlay) layers of colored glass, with windows cut on its coated surface to allow visual access to the inner motif.  Encased overlays have been further covered in a thick coating of clear glass.
 
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Glossary text from The Art of the Paperweight used courtesy of L. H. Selman Ltd.

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