Brass Heart Vintage Paperweight, Etched Leaf

Add a touch of timeless charm to your desk or shelf with this vintage brass heart paperweight, elegantly etched with a repeating leaf pattern. Compact yet weighty, it’s both functional and decorative, a lovely piece for collectors, romantics, or those who appreciate natural motifs.

Product Details:

• Material: Solid brass with etched leaf design

• Shape: Heart

• Base: Lined with green felt to protect surfaces

• Weight: Hefty feel appropriate for use as a paperweight

• Condition: Good vintage condition with surface patina and natural wear consistent with age, felt base intact with minor wear

Determining the Age:

• Solid brass paperweights were especially popular in home and office decor from the 1950s–1980s. The heavy cast brass construction suggests it was made during a time when metal was still cost-effective for decorative objects (before mass-market plastic became dominant).

• Etched leaf motif designs like this, stylized and repetitive, are typical of decorative brass imports from India or East Asia during that same postwar period.

• The green felt lining on the bottom is very telling. Felt was commonly used from the 1960s through the 1980s to protect surfaces from metal scratches.

• The aging and patina of the felt and glue residue support the idea that this is not a recent piece.

• The darkened patina on the brass and the wear pattern (especially on the edges and high points) are consistent with natural oxidation over several decades.

• Newer reproductions usually have brighter brass finishes or factory-sealed coatings to prevent this level of patina.