I was contacted recently by Judith who wanted some pieces of the Berlin Wall that she had collected to be encased inside three custom made paperweights.
These are all pieces of the Berlin Wall she broke off the week after the wall came down (when she was much younger and physically able).
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| Broken pieces of the Berlin Wall |
The Berlin Wall fell on the evening of November 9th1989, when crowds of German civilians began to dismantle the graffiti covered wall. The Berlin Wall had been an East / West barrier for almost 30 years and was seen to symbolise the Cold War division of Europe.
Many people at the time collected pieces of the wall and many have been sold to tourists over the years. Judith was lucky to collect the pieces herself and decided that now is the time to have them displayed inside paperweights to give to friends and of course, keep a paperweight for herself.
She wanted three domed resin paperweights creating containing the pieces of the Berlin Wall, obviously having the coloured graffiti facing upwards on all the pieces where possible. These are the completed paperweights that I made for her:
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| Custom paperweights containing Berlin Wall pieces |
Judith received her paperweights and this was her reaction “They have arrived and I love them. Thank you so much for getting them here in time for me to take with me. I thought the hard bit had been done, getting them made, working to the timetable, but now I must decide which one I want to keep!”
If you have pieces of the Berlin Wall (or any other sentimental items) that you would like to preserve inside bespoke paperweights, please contact me.
Mick
