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Ray and Bob Banford are a father and son team who started their glass journey in the early 1970's. Ray was interested in collecting, buying and selling art glass, while Bob was interested in the art of glass blowing. Ray bought Bob a torch for a graduation present and it started their journey into the art. After years of trial and error study they produced their first saleable paperweights in 1973. Paperweights from the antique classic period of the 1840's were their inspiration. They were the culmination of the finest skills and products from the factories at that time. The clearest of crystal, most intense colors, and the skills of the best glassblowers were incorporated into the making of paperweights. The most talented glass cutters finished the pieces. The Banfords have continued this practice today. By searching for the best colors, using only the finest of optically clear crystal glass, they have honed their art to a point where pieces by the Banfords grace many private and public collections. These paperweights are in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute, Corning Museum of Glass, Chicago Art Institute, Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Village, Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, and many others. Although Ray is semi-retired, they both continue to further their skills adding new techniques to their work and expanding their ability to produce the finest paperweights. Their work is individually signed internally with their own distinctive initial cane. Ray's signature cane is a black "B" in a white field; Bob's cane is a red "B" in a white field with a cobalt blue.

Bob Banford pansy and pink flower bouquet magnum glass paperweight. by Bob Banford
Bob Banford pansy and pink flower bouquet magnum paperweight.
$1250
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Bob Banford snake and flower glass paperweight. by Bob Banford
Bob Banford snake and flower paperweight.
$650
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Bob Banford dueling snakes and ladybug glass paperweight. by Bob Banford
Bob Banford dueling snakes and ladybug paperweight.
$600
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Bob Banford pink double clematis and garland miniature faceted glass paperweight. by Bob Banford
Bob Banford pink double clematis and garland miniature faceted paperweight.
$600
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Bob Banford pansy and pink flower bouquet magnum paperweight.

Bob Banford pansy and pink flower bouquet magnum paperweight. by Bob Banford

Artist: Bob Banford

Medium: modern
Scan Code: BB361JR

Price: $1,250

Bob Banford pansy and pink flower bouquet magnum paperweight. Three pansies, with pairs of notched b [...]
Bob Banford pansy and pink flower bouquet magnum paperweight. Three pansies, with pairs of notched blue upper petals and trios of blue-dotted black-striped white lower petals around central stardust stamen canes, are spaced by pairs of symmetrically arching leafy branches, each topped by a pink blossom, and are gathered into a bouquet with drooping spiral buds and leaves. Clear, strawberry-cut ground. Signature cane. Diameter 3 13/16".[hide]

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Bob Banford snake and flower paperweight.

Bob Banford snake and flower paperweight. by Bob Banford

Artist: Bob Banford

Medium: modern
Scan Code: BB069.2

Price: $650

Bob Banford snake and flower paperweight. A black snake, with dorsal stripes the length of its body [...]
Bob Banford snake and flower paperweight. A black snake, with dorsal stripes the length of its body in rust-red, orange and yellow, is interrupting his sinuous slithering to gaze at an upright pink flower, with yellow and black stamens, which has emerged from a fountain of satin green leaves next to several brown twigs. Pebbly earth ground. Signature cane. Diameter 3 1/16".[hide]

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Bob Banford dueling snakes and ladybug paperweight.

Bob Banford dueling snakes and ladybug paperweight. by Bob Banford

Artist: Bob Banford

Medium: modern
Scan Code: BB165.2

Price: $600

Bob Banford dueling snakes and ladybug paperweight. A pair of dueling snakes, one black with green a [...]
Bob Banford dueling snakes and ladybug paperweight. A pair of dueling snakes, one black with green and brown spots, the other striped in yellow and red, faces off on a pebbly ground. A ladybug, inconveniently wedged between the two, ponders her dilemma. Signature cane. Diameter 3 1/4”.[hide]

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Bob Banford pink double clematis and garland miniature faceted paperweight.

Bob Banford pink double clematis and garland miniature faceted paperweight. by Bob Banford

Artist: Bob Banford

Medium: Modern
Scan Code: BB342KR

Price: $600

Bob Banford pink double clematis and garland faceted miniature paperweight. A pink clematis, with fi [...]
Bob Banford pink double clematis and garland faceted miniature paperweight. A pink clematis, with five radiating petals that are spaced with five more petals, has a white center on which a delicate flower with green stem is painted, the latter tying the clematis' five green aventurine sepals into the design. A blue and white twisted garland surrounds the flower. Clear ground. Five and one facets. Signature cane. Tiny fleabites to the side of the top facet. Diameter 1 7/8”.[hide]

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