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glass through the ages to present day
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 Zwischengoldglas
Zwischengoldglas is a glassware technique in which gold foil is inserted between two glass panels. The pieces are designed to fit perfectly over each other, so that the gold appears to float in the glass. Zwischengoldglas is different from other styles in that the pieces are bonded with cement r ...
- Thomas Webb & Sons - History
Probably the most famous Victorian glasshouse was located in Stourbridge, England. Known for innovative design and techniques in glassmaking. Thomas Webb glass, particularly scent/perfume bottles are always collectable. Predominantly famous in glass circles for rock crystal and English c ...
- The Glass of Stevens & Williams
Stevens & Williams was an English glass manufactory in Stourbridge, West Midlands. Its most notable cameo wares date from the 1880's when the studio was under the direction of John Northwood Notable engravers at the Stevens & Williams factory include: Joshua Hodgetts (1858 -1933) - Ho ...
- Cameo Glass - History and Manufacture
To understand the origins of English antique glass it is important to know the historical importance of a truly 'antique' glass artefact. In 1787 the collection of the Duchess of Portland was offered for sale by auction. The sale included the Barberini Vase, which was excavated early in the 17th ...
- Collecting Paperweights
Antique glass paperweights are very collectable and some of the best ones, particularly those from the French factories Baccarat, Clichy and St Louis can command very high prices. For example, a Clichy paperweight in the shape of a basket of flowers sold in 1990 at Sothebys for $258,500. In 2001 ...
- Modern Paperweights
After about 1860, the era of fine paperweight making was over. It wasn't until 1950 that they came back into vogue and production began again in earnest in factories in many different countries. Caithness Glass is one of today's leading manufacturers producing a wide range of designs, sizes and ...
- Paperweights
In the 19th century, educated ladies and gentlemen sat at their desks writing letters and making entries in their diaries. Of course, this opened up a market for manufacturers to produce desk accessories including paperweights. Made by master craftsmen, they are objects of supreme beauty. Is it ...
- Amberina Glass
Joseph Locke, lead designer for Cambridge Glass (part of the New England Glass Company in East Cambridge, MA) and Edward Libbey of The Libbey Glass Company of Toledo, Ohio patented amberina glass in 1883. Amberina glass is readily identifiable by its unique colour tones, shading ...
- Tiffany Studios lamps and Favrile glass
Louis Comfort Tiffany was born on January 17, 1848, the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, and began his career as a painter in the 1860s and 1870s. He founded his own firm, Tiffany Studios, in 1885 and focused on art glass. Earlier, Louis Comfort Tiffany had already registered for a patent on a new ...
- History of Baccaret Crystal
Baccarat Crystal is a manufacturer of fine crystal glassware located in Baccarat, France. The Musée Baccarat, on the Place des États-Unis in Paris, displays many of its finest productions. 1764-1816 In 1764 King Louis XV of France gave permission to found a glassworks in t ...
- Baccarat Manufacture Of Fine Cut Crystal
Baccarat. The Compagnie des Cristalleries de Baccarat, Muerthe et Moselle, France, is one of France's oldest and finest glass manufactories. Their infinitely varied activities range from architectural and gross ornamental pieces to dainty stemware. Baccarat decorative styles include numerous ad ...
- Bristol And Nailsea Glass
It is a matter of regret that Bristol's ancient fame for making and cutting glass should have so completely disappeared. In the balmy days of its glass industry it boasted no fewer than fifteen "glass-houses," and it had no rival in the country either as regards the quantity or the quality of i ...
- Cranberry Glass
The appealing pink of cranberry glass makes it the most collectable type of coloured Victorian glass. Also the enormous variety of shapes in which it can be found, Cranberry glass was very much a Victorian invention, made from the 1850s to the outbreak of World War 1. It's generally pale pin ...
- Carnival Glass An Introduction
Carnival glass is pressed and iridized glass manufactured between 1905 and 1930. It was made by various companies in the United States, England, Germany, France, Australia, Sweden, Finland and Czechoslovakia. Carnival was produced in an effort to compete with art glass. The person who was una ...
- Canadian Brilliant Period Glass An Introduction
A Sugar and Creamer Signed “Dingwall” This small sugar and creamer set (circa 1905) is cut in a simple hobstar pattern. It is comparable to the best American brilliant period glass. It is signed by Dingwall, an agent for the Gundy-Clapperton company. A Leaf Shaped Nappy Sign ...
- Canadian Glass Worth Collecting
Facts concerning lead glassware cut in Canada are hard to find. Certain collectors of American Brilliant Period glass are wary of buying Canadian ware. They need not worry if they follow the same criteria as when choosing good U.S. pieces. Look for a clear blank of good colour and accurate cu ...
- Antique Pressed Glass
Pressed Glass, also referred to as Pattern Glass, was produced between 1850 to 1910. The majority was produced in the 1880’s. When it was originally designed, it was intended for everyday use and was made to be very durable and at the same time, attractive. Families would use glassware ...
- Antique American - Brilliant Cut Glass
Cut glass, which is simply blown or pressed glass ground upon a wheel, goes back at least to produced as far back as the second millennium BC by the Egyptians & perhaps the Phoenicians. Yet evidently it originated in Mesopotamia, where pieces of well made glass have been found, believed to da ...
- Lead Crystal and Glass
The History of Glass Making No one knows exactly when or where glass was first made. Glass appears to have been produced as far back as the second millennium BC by the Egyptians & perhaps the Phoenicians. Yet evidently it originated in Mesopotamia, where pieces of well made glass have been fo ...
- Greener, Jobling, Corning Glass - Sunderland, UK
Henry Greener - 1st Trademark The first chronicled production of glass in England was in 674 AD when the Venerable Bede described how glassmakers from Gaul were brought over to make windows for a newly built church and monastery in Sunderland. This church, St Peters in Monkwearmouth, Sunderland ...
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