Rosetta Stone Paperweight - Resin with felt backing,8cm This highly popular miniature version of the Rosetta Stone makes a useful and tactile paperweight.

London glass paperweight - Oval glass paperweight featuring a street map of West London from about 1660 etched by Wenceslaus Hollar. Oval glass paperweight

Paperweight Geisha - A glasss paperweight featuring a watercolour by Kawahar Keiga (dates unknown),who produced hundreds of images of Japanese plants,animals,genre scenes and portraits in the 1820's. Oval glass 97mm long x 65mm wide x 20mm deep

Paperweight,Astrolabe - An astrolabe is a multifunctional instrument enabling the user to perform such diverse tasks as time keeping,surveying,determining latitudes and casting horoscopes.They were used in Europe until the seventeenth century and in the Islamic world until the nineteenth century.This is one of the three astrolabes from the collections of Sir Hans Sloane that are now in the British Museum Round glass 84mm diameter x 20mm