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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Casper, Geraldine J. Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum. Richmond, VA: United States Historical Society Press; New York: Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1989.

Dunlop, Paul. The Jokelson Collection of Antique Cameo Incrustation. Phoenix: Papier Presse, 1991.

Hollister, Paul M., Jr. The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights. Reprint, originally published: New York: C.N. Potter, 1969. Santa Cruz, CA: Paperweight Press, 1986.

_____ and Dwight P. Lanmon. Paperweights: "flowers which clothe the meadows." Corning, NY: The Corning Museum of Glass, 1978.

Jokelson, Paul. Sulphides: The Art of Cameo Incrustation. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1968.

Melvin, Jean Sutherland. American Glass Paperweights and their Makers. Rev. and enl. ed. Camden, NJ: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1970.

Newell, Clarence A. Old Glass Paperweights of Southern New Jersey: An American Folk Art. Phoenix: Papier Presse, 1989.

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