Silvery blue iridescent trailing on red & gold textured field, signed and dated 1983, 8 1/2, excellent.......Charles G. Lotton began his full time, professional glass making, career in January of 1973. A very successful hairstylist and salon owner, Charles had always possessed a passion for beautiful art glass. After melting old Coke bottles and experimenting with many different formulas, Charles developed his own secret formula for creating magnificent colors of glass. Charles Lotton was the first glass artist to decorate the 'outside' of a paperweight in 1970. Then coined an 'onion skin' paper weight simply meaning the decoration was on the outside layer. Prior to Charles this had never been done before in the field of glass. Today he pushes the forces at 72 and creates a whole new style in glass called the "cypriot multi Flora"

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