PAUL JOKELSON - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 10/06/1965 - HFSID 274707
Price: $160.00
PAUL JOKELSON
Paperweight collector who championed the craft as an art form
Typed Letter signed: "Paul Jokelson", 1p, 8½x11. Scarsdale, N.Y.,
1965 October 8. On personal letterhead to Alfred J. Kaiser, M.D., Hatfield,
Massachusetts. In full: "Thank you for your letter of October 4th. I
am afraid that you misunderstood what Baccarat told you about the overlays of
Pope John XXIII: I do not have any of these new weights for sale and only get
one [underlining in pen] for my own collection. I do have once in
a while some of the sulphides made previously by Baccarat, for instance
Washington, the Coronation etc. and, naturally, also old paperweights produced
in the 1850's. Should you be interested in any of these sulphides I will be glad
to give you their prices and try to find for you any subject which I would not
have at this time. Sincerely yours". While on leave in Paris from the French
army in 1923, Paul Jokelson purchased his first paperweight, the beginning of an
extensive collection. Jokelson, who fought for France during World War II
(escaping at Dunkirk but returning to France to fight on), and worked for the UN
in refugee relief after the war, married an American citizen and moved to New
York, beginning an export-import company. Deciding that his hobby might be
commercially profitable, Jokelson persuaded France's Baccarat glass factories to
create commemorative paperweights for events such as the Coronation of Queen
Elizabeth II. In 1955, he founded the Paperweight Collectors Association. His
books and organizing efforts did much to legitimize paperweights as a
popular hobby and credible art form. Collector-quality paperweights are seldom
used to hold down paper. Sulfide paperweights contain a ceramic display
within glass, and are often used to celebrate persons and events. There are
approximately 20,000 paperweight collectors today, and individual pieces
have sold for more than a quarter of a million dollars. Jokelson died in 2002 at
age 97. Mailing folds. Fine condition.
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