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Dates Paperweight Collectors Know Best

May 7, 2016 By Sue Soy

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1940 – Evangeline Bergstrom publishes the well-known book, Old Glass Paperweights

Paperweight Museum at Corning Museum of Glass (New York) opening with the Houghton Collection – 1951

1953 — The Paperweight Collectors’ Association created in the United States by Paul Jokelson

The Bergstrom Art Center in Neenah, Wisconsin, opens the Paperweight Museum now know as the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass  — 1959

1978 — Paperweights: Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows Exhibit presented to the public at Corning Museum of Glass

1986 — The Paperweight Collectors Association of Texas was founded. PCA TX is celebrating 30 Years!

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Damon MacNaught  and Ken Rosenfeld 30th Anniversary PCA TX Paperweights

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Ken Rosenfeld Indian Paintbrush Flower Paperweight with PCA Texas 30 at the base
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Verso side of the Damon MacNaught 30th Anniversary paperweight made for PCA TX

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