Correction: I now have found info that some post-Civil War glass sold as "flint" had no lead in it. The "Encyclopedia of Antiques" (Negus 1983...
The amount of lead in fine glass is a complex subject and most glassware collector books don't go into that. They speak of broader categories eg....
Why? Just because of the chip? Any idea of its era and / or family? I don't hope for a pattern name but even a period eg. "Georgian" or...
I already agreed that pattern glass is pressed glass so "cut" is no longer in question. (no doubt some, somewhere, had added cut features)....
Yeah, I know more now. Such as that while "PG" stands for Pattern Glass (not Pressed Glass, as you seem to think), all Pattern Glass is pressed....
I had thought gray based on looking through the glass eg. up through the bottom, but now realize it has a yellow tinge throughout, which is more...
Update: Elsewhere it's been suggested that this is not US but instead British "Georgian period" glass; and looking at examples of those patterns...
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I'm clearing the estate of a real, old-skool, lifetime New England expert on early American glassware and furniture. Who left us with all the...
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