Victor Trabucco talks about his Nature in Ice Series of paperweights, which departed from the traditional round shape of a weight. Oral history interview with Victor Trabucco by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, September 16, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:00.

Victor Trabucco: Well, in the, yeah in the late—in the eighties, I took—Paul Stankard and I, we both came out in the same year with a—we departed from the traditional round shape of the paperweight, and mine was the Nature and Ice series. And then also these inclusions, where I did grinding and polishing of—and put some parts of the paperweight together with slabs of crystal. And I can send you some images of that, it’s called my Inclusion series. So we were the first ones that kind of depart from the traditional paperweight shape, and at that time Paul Jokelson, who was the president of the Paperweight Association, [Paperweight Collectors Association, Inc] was quite disturbed with our [laughs] our transition. But that was interesting because maybe a year or two later when he wrote a book, he put one of my Nature and Ice weights on the cover of his book. [laughs] So he finally accepted the idea.