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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bluemoon, post: 269041, member: 1296&quot;]The Williamsburg, etc glass is directly based on an 18th century design (or is a later vintage of it so it looks) so that alone probably isn&#039;t enough to determine the age. Did someone manufacture this design in the late 19th century?</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know enough about the principles of glass stem and foot construction of the 18th century or after but why would glasses from the 70&#039;s, or from the 90&#039;s have such ancient look to them with air bubbles and vertical lines, crookedness and all? Isn&#039;t commercial glass from the second half of the 20th century notoriously uniformal and &quot;perfect&quot; in quality? There is absolutely nothing about these glasses that would meet any glass company&#039;s quality standards in that era, or so it seems. Is there a chance the seam between the stem and the base was blended so well it&#039;s not visible?</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at the other glasses in the Bukowskis ad, not only one closeup, the stem and foot area has this pile of glass, exactly the way one of my glasses has. The other not. Maybe one of my glasses is 18th century, hence the color difference?</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a few other miscellaneous glasses, very typical 18th century designs. Since you brought up the matter of the base and the stem being made separately, I would be thankful if someone could clarify whether these two were made one way or the other?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]84811[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]84813[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I found this informative website that tells about the manufacturing process and other stuff related to old glass <a href="http://18cglass.co.uk/index.php?main_page=page&amp;id=11" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://18cglass.co.uk/index.php?main_page=page&amp;id=11" rel="nofollow">http://18cglass.co.uk/index.php?main_page=page&amp;id=11</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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