Rare Vintage Apollo 11 Moon Landing Paperweight Gentile Glass West Virigina Nasa

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Note a "G" signature within the design - bottom marked with STAR with a C inside it. A great item from the First Lunar Landing blue with white lettering of crew ARMSTRONG ALDRIN COLLINS shows astronaut stepping off of LEM to surface of cratered Moon. Approx 3 inches diameter and  2 1/2 inches high - weight. A great example of work of the Gentile Family.  The original glass worker in the family was Peter Gentile, born in Naples, Italy in 1884.  He worked in Naples (Italy), Rochester (Pennsylvania), and Morgantown (West Virginia) before building his own factory in Star City (West Virginia) in 1947.

His sons, Frankie, John and Joe Gentile helped him make paperweights in the off hours at the Guild Factory in Morgantown.   However, most paperweight production since WWII has been associated with Peter, John, or John's wife Gertrude Gentile.  Few weights were signed prior to 1963.  It is believed that Gentile Glass remained in production until 2006.  

 

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