Time Stopped: Antique Handblown Glass Hourglass with No Armature northern california overall very good condition and

overall very good condition and really looks great

which I purchased from a wonderful paper dealer from upstate New York at the Papertown show in Boxborough

With chalk drawings of a ship and a train at either side of that board

Fascinating

The Grace Borgenicht Gallery opened on 57th Street in May 1951

Time Stopped: Antique Handblown Glass Hourglass with No Armature northern california overall very good condition andI know this is an old one, as I found it along with remnants of an antique hand cut tin lattice sleeve, which would have held it to make it usable (no longer the case.) Which made me realize how lovely an object a liberated (and thwarted) hourglass is when set on its side formally and metaphorically resonant in all sorts of ways! 2 1 2" long. Hand blown, with pontils at either end, and satisfying pinkish brown sand. Nice patina to the surface of the