Superb Antique Glass Paperweight Flatiron Building Manhattan NY 1900 Flat Iron

Description

Here is an
extremely nice
antique glass paperweight.
The subject is the
the incredible 285-foot triangular shape
Flatiron Building
at 175 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City
(this is of the building itself - it is
not an advertising piece
from a business)
Date - we believe around 1902 (when the building was built) or not much later.  LOOK CLOSELY
: There are no motorized vehicles in the (very sharp and clear) black and white photo. Behind a man in the street is an electric streetcar and farther back is a horse drawn wagon. To the far left another trolley can be seen and on the right is a tall clock on the street corner.
SIZE
:   Approximately 4 inches long, 2-1/2 inches wide and 1 inch tall, with lovely rounded corners and a molded pattern on the inside rim that makes it sparkle.
This weighs a full 11 ounces (not quite 3/4 pound) - heavy for its size.
CONDITION
:
Extremely nice,
with a terrific photo that is solidly adhered to the glass. There is a red "leatherette" backing also firmly adhered.
The glass is crystal clear with absolutely NO cracks, chips, flakes or surface marks or scuffing.
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, is a triangular 22-story, 285-foot-tall (86.9 m) steel-framed landmarked building located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the eponymous Flatiron District neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan, New York City. Designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick Dinkelberg, it was one of the tallest buildings in the city upon its 1902 completion, at 20 floors high and one of only two "skyscrapers" north of 14th Street—the other being the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, one block east. The building sits on a triangular block formed by Fifth Avenue, Broadway, and East 22nd Street—where the building's 87-foot (27 m) back end is located—with East 23rd Street grazing the triangle's northern (uptown) peak. As with numerous other wedge-shaped buildings, the name "Flatiron" derives from its resemblance to a cast-iron clothes iron.
Called "one of the world's most iconic skyscrapers and a quintessential symbol of New York City",the building anchors the south (downtown) end of Madison Square and the north (uptown) end of the Ladies' Mile Historic District. The neighborhood around it is called the Flatiron District after its signature, iconic building.The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1966, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979,and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989.
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