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Glass Paperweights from the Estelle Doheny Collection

at St. John’s Seminary Camarillo, California and 
St. Mary’s of the Barrens Seminary Perryville, Missouri

by: Mary Redus Gayle

1971, Science Press, Ephrata, PA

90 pages, hardcover edition of 550 copies  

​Extremely rare. Call for price & availability


This book chronicles the important paperweight collection built by Mrs. Edward Laurence Doheny in the early years of the twentieth century. It describes and illustrates, in color, over 100 items from the collection, which over half a century later was sold at auction. This is a very rare book, as it was printed in a small edition, for supporters of the two seminaries where the collection was displayed. It was not sold to the public and only a few copies are in paperweight collectors' libraries.