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<p>[QUOTE="Cherryhill, post: 2988123, member: 70"]Cold wailer time, again....(I hate doing this...So why do it you ask. <u>To bring us all down to reality</u> is my answer.)</p><p><br /></p><p>This is not Early American Pressed (or cut) Glass. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is a recent, 1980 to present, piece, made in Europe or The Middle East, for the American Market. It was pressed in a mold, then lightly cut (cross hatch) to satisfy the US Import requirements. Pressed glass is imported into the US in competition with American glass firms, and has an import duty on it. Cut Glass, however, has no local/native competition so it has no import duty, or at least less than pressed glass. </p><p><br /></p><p>Its a nice piece of glass, would look stunning with flowers in it. Just not valuable antique American glass.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cherryhill, post: 2988123, member: 70"]Cold wailer time, again....(I hate doing this...So why do it you ask. [U]To bring us all down to reality[/U] is my answer.) This is not Early American Pressed (or cut) Glass. This is a recent, 1980 to present, piece, made in Europe or The Middle East, for the American Market. It was pressed in a mold, then lightly cut (cross hatch) to satisfy the US Import requirements. Pressed glass is imported into the US in competition with American glass firms, and has an import duty on it. Cut Glass, however, has no local/native competition so it has no import duty, or at least less than pressed glass. Its a nice piece of glass, would look stunning with flowers in it. Just not valuable antique American glass.[/QUOTE]
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