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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aarone, post: 9773611, member: 83202&quot;]Correction:&nbsp; I now have found info that some post-Civil War glass sold as &quot;flint&quot; had no lead in it.&nbsp; The &quot;Encyclopedia of Antiques&quot; (Negus 1983 pg 371) says that the British firm Sowerby&#039;s, mass-producing pressed glass at the end of the 19th century, still used that word to denote any of their products in clear glass, though by then it had no lead.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sowerby&#039;s wasn&#039;t making Early American Pattern Glass but they couldn&#039;t have been alone in this.&nbsp; The practice may well have been common in the US too.</p><p><br /></p><p>So it looks like there were what we might call boutique firms still producing traditional flint glass (at least a half-dozen firms in the US) to the end of the century, while probably more and larger producers made pressed glass that was flint in name only, which is consistent with your statement.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still lots of true flint EAPG from both before the Civil War and afterwards, though in much smaller numbers latterly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just in passing I would think that non-lead glass originally sold as &quot;flint&quot; wouldn&#039;t be identified as such today because it doesn&#039;t ring, which appears to be the primary way to distinguish between soda-lime and flint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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