Article: Shake 'n' swirl: Fans of world's original snow-globe maker include U.S. presidents, Dubai school children

GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
12-20-2004
Dateline: VIENNA, Austria
As his grandson tells it, it began as a project by a man trying to build stronger lights for Vienna's operating room. Instead, the first snow globe was born.

More than 100 years later, a Vienna craftsman has turned his grandfather's fluke discovery into an enterprise beloved the world over.

"I have customers everywhere, even the Falkland Islands," Erwin Perzy said.

He says he sells 300,000 globes a year from his busting-at-the-corners Vienna workshop, where machines that make the plastic molds for his figurines vie for space with a showroom and a "museum" featuring signature pieces.

Orders range from ...

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