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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Really Old Guy, post: 9772657, member: 85234&quot;]Aarone, I yield, but.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Flint Glass companies you mentioned made brilliant clear (they claimed) lime glass. (Check their dates of production) It may have been called &quot;flint&quot; because it was clear, without color. It &#039;s main constituent was lime compounds, not lead oxide, the main constituent of flint glass (up to 60%). When lead became expensive due to its use in firearms (during the Civil War) other constituents (lime) were found to take its place in glass.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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