Satava Art Glass Moon Jellyfish Paperweight and Stand Auction Includes 5 Light LED Paperweight Stand!! Start Price USD 200.00 Current Price USD 350.50 Time Left - Bid Count 15 Buy It Now Price USD 400.00 Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, October 01, 2008 End Time Wednesday, October 08, 2008 Location Santa Cruz, California See more about 'Satava Art Glass Moon Jellyfish Paperweight and Stand' Description Satava Art Glass "Moon Jellyfish" high-domed paperweight. The piece depicts a three-dimensional jellyfish, with a translucent body and flowing amber tentacles. Signed/dated. Height 5 1/8" - 5 1/2". INCLUDES 5 Light LED Stand!! Normal retail price of Jellyfish: $400.00, retail price of stand: $35.00. Be sure to add me to your favorites list! Click here to see our other auctions. We will combine shipping if possible for multiple wins. Paperweights will be shipped FedEx 3Day for $20.00 for the first paperweight, and $5.00 for each additional. Please wait for your invoice from paypal before paying for multiple wins. We will make every effort to reduce your shipping where possible. International bidders pay $35.00 for the first paperweight, and $10.00 for each additional paperweight, shipped via Airmail. California residents pay 7.25% sales tax. Most wins will be shipped the business day after payment is received. Contact us with questions 1-800-538-0766 or (831) 427-1177. “Among the various collections of art objects which I possess, it is the paperweights which have brought me the most pleasure.”–Arthur Rubloff, Chicago real estate developer and philanthropist. Collection housed at the Art Institute of Chicago.   Welcome to L. H. Selman Ltd., a name that has been synonymous with the finest antique and contemporary paperweights for over 35 years. As the country’s premier dealer in fine art glass paperweights, we also specialize in contemporary studio glass sculpture, and have expanded to include fine glass jewelry. Our mission is to promote the most challenging of all glass art forms, by exhibiting the finest examples made in centuries past, and by nurturing new talent emerging from contemporary independent studios.   L. H. Selman Ltd. has a sterling reputation, forged through years of working together with our clients to help them build discriminating and sophisticated collections.   • We maintain an expansive paperweight museum and gallery in Santa Cruz, California, with the largest collection of antique and contemporary paperweights anywhere.   • TheGlassGallery, our online presence, allows collectors to browse our inventory, read artists’ profiles, and order works of art.   • We hold bi-annual auctions, each accompanied by a full-color catalogue, and hold periodic exclusive online auctions, both of which offer collectors the chance to acquire some of the very best in antique, contemporary, and secondary-market pieces.   • Our full-color brochures present new work from accomplished masters and emerging artists, as well as offerings from our antique collection.   • Paperweight Press, our publishing house, offers a full spectrum of literature exploring the art and science of paperweights and glass art.     • Our professional consultants are dedicated to the highest level of service and attention to detail with every client, from the casual collector to the serious connoisseur.   With a depth of knowledge and an ability to educate and advise individuals in developing their collections, we make a commitment that says, “Invest with confidence, you’ll receive only the best from L. H. Selman Ltd.”   A BRIEF HISTORY What some might consider to be a simple desk accessory, has been locked in the treasure vaults of kings and collected by some of the world’s most famous personalities. The origin of glass paperweights can be traced to France, about 1845, when glass factories such as Baccarat, Saint Louis, and Clichy were competing to create the world’s finest crystal luxury items. Water sets, tableware, and desk accessories, such as inkwells, led to the creation of presse-papiers.   These relatively affordable objets d’art were developed as elegant gift items, and exhibited to great acclaim in London’s Great Exhibition of 1851. After that, the factories competed to outdo each other, creating intricate designs in grand presentation pieces which are highly sought after in today's market.   The original French glass paperweight passion lasted about 25 years; after which the objects fell out of vogue, and the intricate process for creating them was virtually lost. Then in the 1950s, Paul Jokelson, an enthusiastic collector of antique weights, convinced the factories from his native France to re-invent the technique. The result is a renaissance of the most difficult of all glass art forms – the contemporary glass paperweight, which in many ways exceeds the brilliance and complexity of its predecessors.   Glass paperweights can be found in museum collections around the world, including the Corning Museum of Glass, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum in Wisconsin. They have been collected by kings, American presidents, writers, such as Colette and Truman Capote, and investors, such as Arthur Rubloff – all people who became fascinated by these small, complex pieces of art which Capote described as “...rather like frozen snowflakes, dazzling patterns frozen forever.”   WHO IS LAWRENCE SELMAN? In the mid-1960s Lawrence Selman, with a PhD in organic chemistry from Yale, and mastery of the viola da gamba, was introduced to paperweights through a fellow musician who collected them. Selman bought some pieces as gifts for his friends, and slowly became involved in trading paperweights. It wasn’t long before the small works of art became more than a passing fancy for him, as he found himself traveling across the country to purchase and sell them. Eventually, Selman left behind his career as a professor of chemistry, and started L. H. Selman Ltd. as a small mail order business.   Recognizing a void in information available to the paperweight-collecting community, Selman decided to create a publishing company through which he could distribute his own knowledge of paperweights for the benefit of collectors, new and established. His first effort was Paperweights for Collectors. The book proved indispensable, and many others followed. Selman also founded the International Paperweight Society and Museum, which is housed within his company’s main gallery, and seeks to promote knowledge of, and appreciation for the art and science of the paperweight.   In 2001, Selman was awarded the honor of being named by the Paperweight Collectors Association, one the Top Ten People of the 20th Century to influence the paperweight art form.   “Since that humble beginning with a kitchen table operation, Selman has expanded considerably and now maintains a Santa Cruz gallery, while continuing a sizeable mail order business. Selman also conducts on-line auctions and biannual traditional ‘off-line’ auctions, advises museums and individuals on their collections, travels extensively to collect both antique and contemporary paperweights, promotes paperweight artists, encourages and helps new artists get started, and assembles traveling paperweight exhibits.” –Kathy Moyer from “Annual Bulletin” of the Paperweight Collectors Association, Inc. 2001 Millennium Edition Place a Bid!