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Ray and Bob Banford are a father and son team who started their glass journey in the early 1970s. Ray was interested in collecting, buying and selling art glass, while Bob was interested in the art of glass blowing. Ray bought Bob a blow torch for a graduation present and it started their journey into the art form. After years of trial and error and study, they produced their first saleable paperweights in 1973. Paperweights from the antique classic period of the 1840s were their inspiration. Those antiques were the culmination of the finest skills and procedures from the factories of their day. The clearest of crystal, most intense colors obtainable, and the skills of the best glassblowers were incorporated into the creation 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 Institution, Corning Museum of Glass, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of American Glass at WheatonArts, Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, and many others. The men's works are individually signed, internally with distinctive initial canes. 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. Ray Banford died in March of 2003 in his native New Jersey. 

Ray Banford iris and rose bouquet fancy-cut basket glass paperweight. by Ray Banford
Ray Banford iris and rose bouquet fancy-cut basket paperweight.
$1000
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Ray Banford golden rose on cobalt ground glass paperweight. by Ray Banford
Ray Banford golden rose on cobalt ground paperweight.
$800
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Ray Banford rose garland faceted glass paperweight. by Ray Banford
Ray Banford rose garland faceted paperweight.
$750
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Ray Banford cabbage rose glass paperweight. by Ray Banford
Ray Banford cabbage rose paperweight.
$625
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Ray Banford aventurine snake glass paperweight. by Ray Banford
Ray Banford aventurine snake paperweight.
$95
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Ray Banford iris and rose bouquet fancy-cut basket paperweight.

Ray Banford iris and rose bouquet fancy-cut basket paperweight. by Ray Banford

Artist: Ray Banford

Medium: modern
Scan Code: RB130

Price: $1,000

Ray Banford iris and rose bouquet fancy-cut basket paperweight. A pink rose presides at the center o [...]
Ray Banford iris and rose bouquet fancy-cut basket paperweight. A pink rose presides at the center of a bouquet, featuring a shaded purple iris, a shaded blue iris and an orange and yellow iris, with companion buds. The bouquet is presented upon a bed of fanning green leaves. Basket-weave cutting to perimeter, two oval facets flanking a braid-cut handle. Diamond-cut clear ground. Signature cane. Diameter 3 1/16".[hide]

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Ray Banford golden rose on cobalt ground paperweight.

Ray Banford golden rose on cobalt ground paperweight. by Ray Banford

Artist: Ray Banford

Medium: Modern
Scan Code: RB147

Price: $800

Ray Banford golden rose on cobalt ground paperweight. A lush golden-yellow rose, crowned by five gr [...]
Ray Banford golden rose on cobalt ground paperweight. A lush golden-yellow rose, crowned by five green leaves, sits atop a slender stem shared with a sixth leaf and a companion bud, over translucent cobalt blue ground. Signature cane. Diameter 2 5/8".[hide]

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Ray Banford rose garland faceted paperweight.

Ray Banford rose garland faceted paperweight. by Ray Banford

Artist: Ray Banford

Medium: modern
Scan Code: RB159WB

Price: $750

Ray Banford rose garland faceted paperweight. A central pink rose, with a nimbus of eight green leav [...]
Ray Banford rose garland faceted paperweight. A central pink rose, with a nimbus of eight green leaves and radial stems, is the nexus for eight radially fixed roses, with crowns of three leaves each, alternating between pink and white and creating a spoke-like formation. Two tiers of twelve vertically cut facets meet and flare at the middle, creating a unique shape. Top facet. Signature cane. Diameter 3 3/16".[hide]

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Ray Banford cabbage rose paperweight.

Ray Banford cabbage rose paperweight. by Ray Banford

Artist: Ray Banford

Medium: modern
Scan Code: RB189JR

Price: $625

Ray Banford cabbage rose paperweight. A lush pink cabbage rose has a crown of green leaves and bloom [...]
Ray Banford cabbage rose paperweight. A lush pink cabbage rose has a crown of green leaves and blooms on a stem spun with the stems of two buds. Translucent cobalt blue, star-cut ground. Signature cane. Diameter 3 1/16”[hide]

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Ray Banford aventurine snake paperweight.

Ray Banford aventurine snake paperweight. by Ray Banford

Artist: Ray Banford

Medium: modern
Scan Code: RB194

Price: $95

Ray Banford aventurine snake paperweight. A dazzling coiled snake, its body made fully of brilliant [...]
Ray Banford aventurine snake paperweight. A dazzling coiled snake, its body made fully of brilliant copper aventurine, lifts its head up from a shaded blue ground. Signature cane. Diameter 2 3/8".[hide]

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