Pen

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Object Name: 
Pen
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
87.4.35
Dimensions: 
L: 19.8 cm, D (max.): 1 cm; (box) H: , L: 22.8 cm, W: 5.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1987
Credit Line: 
Gift of Charles Kazium
Primary Description: 
Colorless, white, purple non-lead glasses; lampworked. Slender, straight shape; the slightly tapered handle enclosing a purple and white twisted tape; rounded tip; rounded disk at the opposite end, with a finely ribbed cylindrical extension drawn down to a fine point; in a molded plastic box marked "MADE IN HONG KONG" with black velvet liner, a loose rectangular white paper label stamped in red "An Original/Kaziun/Paperweight"; the box within a black cardboard box with oval cutout on one side.

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Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Kaziun, Charles (American, 1919-1992), Source
Color: 
Colorless, white, purple
colorless
white
Technique: 
lampworked