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| In other weights the same flowers were used in smaller form, leaving room for a bud and foliage. The leaves used in the St. Louis lower subjects are nicely veined, and the green is a shade lighter than that found in the Baccarat weights.
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| The charming basket with its filigree spiral edge containing many colored flowers and green leaves, is identtified as a St. Louis product through the wheel-shaped flower in the cluster.
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| St. Louis workmen made the first crown weights. These were hollow, and they served not only as paperweights, but as bases for shot glasses, vases, and door knobs .
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A factory in France today still carries on the name of St. Louis, but it is not located on the old site and it is not descended from the famous enterprise founded in 1782. The original St. Louis establishment now operates as a branch of the Baccarat, having ended its independent existence in 1880.
