Recently I had a chance to learn a thing or tow about Cartier paperweights.

I have just purchased a beautiful Cartier paperweight from a reputable dealer in the diamond district, the piece is amazing, don’t really want to sell it, I rather have it on my bookcase.

 Anyway, I checked on eBay and found a few paperweight for dirt cheap, I would buy all of them for those prices…so I tried one out….and here goes….

I bought a paperweight for $100, it’s a steal of a price, but as the price said, it was a bit fishy.

I got the paperweight and at first glance it looked like the real thing, but I already had the real one in my office.

Real	Fake
Full size, well proportioned apple	Stubby funny looking and with no proportions
Had 2 leaves, made of one solid piece of sterling silver with patina on the guilloche plating	One leaf, made of metal, full of porosity (holes) and you can see sloppy soldering on the stems. (Cartier would never let this work out of the factory.
Hand engraved with normal wear	Laser Engraved, perfect condition…However this weight was produced around the onset of laser engraving therefore it’s unlikely to be engraved by laser and in perfect unused condition
Stem is infused into the glass	Stem is glued in a crude way into the glass and doesn’t sit right
Came with the original custom fit Cartier box	No box

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Last modified: 02/17/12