STAINED GLASS Magical Mythical Mermaid 11" Genuine copper foil leaded vintage

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This is for a beautiful handmade beautiful mermaid 11" tall with 18 hand cut and assembled pieces of stained glass made the old fashioned copper foil and solder method. Has a hook for hanging. One thing you may notice about the mermaids are the unusual colors of glass used. It is hard to find these so nice these days. When you hang this I do not recommend suction cups because they can lose their suction over time and you may end up with broken glass. The best is to put a hook on your window trim or in the ceiling and get a length of chain form a hardware store. I opened a large box of glass today that belonged to my sister who passed away in Venice Italy after living there for over thirty years. If you are international let me get the exact shipping for you. I have a random number in the international shipping. When she passed away I had all of her things shipped back to the States from her home in Venice, Italy. For over thirty years while living in Venice my sister maintained a home outside of Venice where she kept her horses, an apartment in Venice and an art studio where she entertained and was the patron of art shows for new artists. I combine shipping and will box very well when needed to make sure it gets to you. I will use brand new sturdy boxes and package well. I combine shipping. I never want to go back later and apologize for a broken item due to bad packaging. Immediate positive feedback upon receipt of payment. Ships same day if paid by three p.m. Paypal preferred but I will gladly accept other methods. . Let me know if you get a chance to read my page with Juli's story and I will send you an extra gift of at least 700 photos on a CD of photographs of my time in Italy with this stained glass. Let me know if you read my me page and that you want the Venice CD. SMOKE FREE/PET FREE home. Always 100% buyer satisfaction guarantee or money back! Absolutely NOTHING past this point has to do with THIS listing. No small print to read. If this is all you need to know to buy theis stained glass OR, if you would like to know the story of the person who owned this and read about an incredible life lived in the most romantic city in the world, then sit back in your desk chair and enjoy... I was living in Padova, Italy in the early 70's with my husband and children. My little sister, only 19 at the time, came to visit me from the States. She decided to take a train ride to Venice by herself and there she met, Paolo. He was quite a bit older but he intrigued her. He was working on his Venetian sailboat. She approached him and asked half jokingly if he would give her a ride on his sailboat. He did and he took her around to all of the islands. He spoke little English and she spoke no Italian but there was something there. She had just come from a traumatic situation in the States. Her fiance had died suddenly and she was devastated. Paolo was the distraction she needed. She said he was a gentleman, old school, would not let her pay for anything and she enjoyed the quiet between them. This quiet grew into an unlikely romance and they married. Juli on her first day in Padova. No one had seen that smile in months. Working briefly as a nanny this is Juli with one of her "charges". She was becoming a true Venetian. Paolo was an artist and did not own a camera. In those early days he must have painted Juli dozens of times on their sailboat with him at the helm and Juli always reading. As wonderful as life was always sailing and reading Juli longed to work but did not have the proper papers. One day when she and Paolo were sailing down the Grand Canal the wife of a wealthy hotel owner fell into the Canal. Paolo jumped into save her and when the hotel owner said he wanted to reward Paolo he said, "Give my wife a job!" Juli began a job at the front desk of one of the nicest hotels in Venice and quickly became fluen... read more

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