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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 5227591, member: 5833&quot;]People collected them by the hundreds, even thousands, especially the less expensive plaster impressions.&nbsp; They kept them in purpose-built cabinets with many shallow drawers, something like a sheet music cabinet.&nbsp; They were also sold in sets, boxed to look like books you could put on a shelf.</p><p><br /></p><p>These glass ones are upscale compared to the plaster ones &amp; the ones in a red sealing wax-like material called sulfur (or sulphur).&nbsp; Tassie&#039;s name was made when Catherine the Great ordered from him a complete set of all the impressions he had collected at the time, to be done in glass matching the original stone, along with a cabinet to house them.&nbsp; Still in the Hermitage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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