Rare Signed Harold J Hacker American Sulphide JFK Paperweight

Description: Rare Signed Harold J Hacker American Sulphide JFK Paperweight. Sticker says the only American sulphide. Old Bottom sticker has $1000. On it. It is signed HJH or Harold J Hacker. RESEARCH SHOWS. The technique of encasing sulphide figures in glass dates from around 1750. Initially, the sulphides were found in glass plaques, flasks, goblets, and other objects. Paperweights came later. Sulphides are found in antique and modern paperweights from many factories. Three French factories made sulphides in significant quantieies during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Midwest American makers also made popular designs during the same period. Harold James Hacker (1906 - 1989) was born in Weston, West Virginia and, at the age of thirteen, took a job at the Weston Glass Plant. Later he worked at the West Virginia Specialty Glass Company and learned some of the rudiments of blowing glass. In 1936 he moved to California and worked at the Technical Glass Company in Los Angeles. After service in the armed services during world war II, he obtained a concession at the Knott's Berry Farm making miniature glass objects, built on a hobby of lampworking that started back in West Virginia. In 1966 Hacker and a friend from West Virginia, A. F. Carpenter, started experimenting with glass paperweights at a small studio near Hacker's home in Buena Park, CA. In the beginning they made more traditional lampwork floral arrangements and millefiori paperweights, but then focused on lampwork snakes, reptiles, turtles, and other animals. Their output was low and, even with two helpers, never exceeded 200 paperweights a year. All were signed with variations of Hacker's signature, "Hacker", "Harold Hacker", "Harold J Hacker", or just the initials "HJH". It is not possible to specifically identify which lampwork animals were made by A. F. Carpenter, but it is believed that Carpenter was the better lampwork artist and Hacker did some of the simpler designs. Hacker also did the encasement. 'Their work was considered good enough to earn an entry in Dunlop's Dictionary of Glass Paperweights. Both men are included in Jean Melvin's book American Glass Paperweights and their Makers (revised edition 1970) and Hacker has a page in Larry Selman's All About Paperweights. Harold Hacker wrote an article "The Art of Paperweights" for the 1968 Annual Bulletin of the Paperweight Collectors' Association. If anyone can give me any other information on this paperweight please feel free to message me.

Price: 175 USD

Location: Bordentown, New Jersey

End Time: 2024-11-28T23:35:13.000Z

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