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Description

Antique souvenir Victorian glass, weight to hold the paper, home decor.
The glass is in a good condition for age, although there are several small chips to the edges, plus there are some surface scratches. There is also a little wear to the paper to the base, please refer to the above photographs for details of the condition.
size:2x4 inches
the origins of this glass can be found here:
The first historical account of an ascent of the peak is in 1456, by an unknown Venetian merchant searching for precious stones. The first settlements on the mountain soon appeared, being primarily mining communities, tapping into its deposits of copper, iron, and arsenic. The mining shafts, totaling 1.5 kilometers (0.93 mi) in length, remain to this day.
The first recorded German name was Riseberg ("giant mountain", cf. Riesengebirge, "Giant Mountains", was mentioned by Georg Agricola in 1546. Fifteen years later the name Riesenberg appears on Martin Helwig's map of Silesia. The German name was later changed to Riesenkoppe ("giant top") and finally to Schneekoppe "snow top", "snowy head".
In Czech, the mountain was initially called Pahrbek Snu011bu017enu00fd. Later Snu011bu017eka, with the eventual name Snu011bu017eovka, meaning "snowy" or "snow-covered", was adopted in 1823. An older Polish name for the mountain was Gu00f3ra Olbrzymia, meaning "giant mountain".
The first building on the mountaintop was the Chapel of Saint Lawrence (Laurentiuskapelle), built ca. 1665?1681 by the Silesian Schaffgotsch family to mark their dominion, serving also as an inn for a brief period of time. The territory including the mines was the property of the Schaffgotsch family until 1945. The so-called Prussian hut was built on the Silesian (now Polish) side in 1850, followed by the Bohemian hut on the Bohemian (now Czech) side in 1868, both built with the purpose of providing lodging. The Prussian hut was rebuilt twice after fires (1857 and 1862), and the (1945) "Polish hut" was finally demolished in 1967. The Bohemian hut fell into disrepair after 1990 and was demolished in 2004.
A wooden weather station was built on the mountaintop ca. 1900, being the only weather station in Central Europe to remain intact after World War II. It was demolished in the 1980s. Snu011bu017eka in 1900( from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sn%C4%9B%C5%BEka)