Paperweight app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: farfalla-Paperweights, Flemming & Pommerencke GbR
First release : 23 Nov 2011
App size: 7.05 Mb
Beginners and Connoisseurs will find herewith this comp App for iPhone and iPad a gently entree and easy way to this extremely specialized category of lovely collectibles for glass art, antique and contemporary as well. Excellent photos of valuable Paperweights accentuate the exciting and profound depiction.
Introduction:
Paperweights - today as 160 years ago -
a lovely anachronism
History and Development of the Paperweight:
Glassmaking in Ancient Egypt and the Near East
Importance of Rome in Glass Distribution
The Importance of Venice on the way to the Paperweights
The First Paperweights
Pietro Bigaglia, the Murano Glassmaker
Venice Sets the Course of Glass in Europe
Paperweights via Bohemia, France and Britain
The Concept of "Paperweight"; particularized
Names:
English: letter-weight (obsolete), paperweight
French: presse-papier, boule dpresse-papier,
German: Briefbeschwerer (inexact), Paperweight
Italian: fermacarta
Spanish: pisapapeles