Gibson Glass Buffalo Paperweight
The St. Clair Glass Works reproduced the buffalo in the 1980s and then sold the mould to Gibson sometime around 1984 or thereafter. As you can see, Gibson’s version is in iridized milk glass, giving it a mother of pearl appearance. It is 2 7/8” high. One way to tell the difference between the St. Clair/Gibson reproductions and the original version is that the head of the reproduction buffalo rests on its chest, whereas the Greentown ones have a space between the head and body.
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