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Collecting Old Glass, English and Irish

INDEX

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INDEX

Absolute frauds, 97

Air spiral, 41, 50

Air-spiral stems, 50, 51

Baluster stems, 40, 46, 47

Beads, 93

Beer glasses, 60

Belfast-made glass, 18

Bell bowl, 56

Blown ware, 26

Bohemian glass, 13

“Boot” glasses, 74

Bottles, 76

Bowl shapes, 56, 59

Bowls, 79

Bristol cut-glass, 31

coloured glass, 35, 36

opal glass, 35

Butterfly, engraved, 20

Caddy sugar-basin, 27, 88

Candlesticks, 60, 81

“Captain” glasses, 85

“Central tube” stem, 53, 55, 66

Champagne glasses, 53, 61

Chipped or broken pieces, 103

Cider glasses, 61

Coaching glasses, 62, 63

Coins in stems, 7, 47

Collar in stem, 46

Collectable articles, 6

Collector’s instinct, 96

range, 11

Coloured glass, 35

spirals, 54

Communion vessel, 10

Comports, 84

Cork-made glass, 17

Cotton-white spirals, 53

Corrugated stems, 50

Custard glasses, 87

Cut-glass, 29

stems, 55

Decanters, 77

Defects of quality, 20, 21

“Diamond” cutting, 30

Dome-foot, 41, 42

Double ogee bowl, 58

Drawn bowl, 49, 56

“Drawn” stems, 49

Drinking glasses, 40

Dutch glass, 19, 21, 102

Egg-cup bowl, 41, 57

Engraved glass, 33

“Engraved up,” 95

Extensive feet, 41

“Faked” glasses, 100

Feel of glass, 21

Feet of tumblers, 45

“Fiat” glasses, 68, 69

Firing glasses, 44

Firing-glass foot, 43

Folded foot, 43

Fuddling glasses, 62, 63

General guides and tests, 14

hints, 95

warnings, 95

Girandoles, 82

Glass knobs, 91

pictures, 90

Goblets, 12, 15, 41

“Greek key” spirals, 54

“Hanoverian” glasses, 71

Hemmed foot, 43

High instep foot, 42

“Hobnail” cutting, 30

Hogarth glasses, 64

Hop and barley glasses, 50, 60

Irish-made glass, 17

Jacobean lamp, 27

Jacobite glasses, 66, 68

mottoes, 68

Jelly glasses, 86

“Joey” glasses, 62, 73

Jugs, 77

Kitchen glasses, 64

Knife-rests, 80

Knives, 80

Knopped stems, 40

Lamps, 27, 83

Likelihood and improbability, 96

Lipped ogee bowl, 58

Lumpy stems, 40

Lustres, 82

“Master” glasses, 85

Mirrors, 90

“Modern antiques,” 98

Mugs, 7, 62

Mum glasses, 61

Nailsea glass, 37

Norwich foot, 43

Oakleaf on glass, 63, 68

Ogee bowl, 58

“Old Pretender” glasses, 69

Out-of-the-way pieces, 99

Paper-weights, 37

Paste, 92

Pepper boxes, 88

Pestles, 80

Plain round stems, 49

“Pomegranate” cutting, 31, 32

Pontil-marks, 23, 24

Punch-lifters, 79

Quality of metal, 19

Rectangular bowl, 57

Rose glasses, 18, 59, 66

Rummers, 16, 61

Salt cellars, 39, 88

Scratches, 22

Shams, 101

Signs of use and wear, 22

“Silver” spirals, 50, 51

Sounds, 18

Spirit glasses, 62

Spoons, 80

Square foot, 45

Star-cutting, 32

Stems, 46–55

Stourbridge glass, 31

Stout stems, 41

Straight-sided bowl, 57

Stuart emblems, 66, 67

Styles of cutting, 30, 31

Sugar-basins, 27, 88

crushers, 80

Sunderland glass, 38, 39

Sweetmeat glasses, 1, 85

Tankards, 73

Tavern glasses, 64

Taws, 94

“Tears” in stems, 48

“Thimbleful” glasses, 65

Thistle engraved, 67

“Thistle” glass, 40

Thumb glasses, 45

Tints, 14, 20

Toastmaster glasses, 63

Toddy-lifters, 79

“Trafalgar” glasses, 16, 97

Tumblers, 73

Venice glass, 12

Waisted bowl, 58

bell bowl, 57

Waterford glass, 3, 17, 21, 30

Weight, 21

“Williamite” glasses, 71

Window glass, 8

Witch-balls, 8, 38

Workmanship, 25

Wrockwardine glass, 38

“Yard of ale” glasses, 64

Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.

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