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Message:: [QUOTE="Cherryhill, post: 3910175, member: 70"]Fifty years of experience makes it hard to remember learning the difference.  It seems like it's intuitive now, I usually can tell before I pick it up. There's a different shine to the surface of a cut area or feature, than to the same area on a pressed piece. My employment as a tool maker may have some influence, I can see the surface as to how it was finished. Ground and polished is one surface, pressed, with the glass cooling against the surface of the mold is another. Entirely different. Unfortunately, my monitor isn't trained to tell the difference. Most if not all of the "American Brilliant Period" of cut glass was blown before being cut, It was made from blanks high in lead content. In the past 30 to 40 years, imports from Europe and points east have also been made from lead glass, but many are pressed before being touched up to claim import as cut glass which the US has declared not a threat to domestic production, thus there's no import duty on them. This is a horse I ride now and again, much imported glass is beautiful, but doesn't have the skill of the old-time cutters behind it.[/QUOTE]