MID-19TH CENTURY

For a similar example see The Robert M. Whittemore Collection, Northeast Auctions, 1 August 2003, lot 55; also see Paul Hollister, The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights, New York, 1969, p. 154 where the author speculates that the total number of paperweights produced by Bacchus is 'probably no more than three or four hundred'.