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<p>[QUOTE="Cherryhill, post: 6093, member: 70"]A few things need clarified here. First and foremost, Libbey and Rock Sharp were two separate companies until Libbey bought out Rock Sharp. They sold old stock until it was gone, but Libbey never made glass or cuttings on or for Rock Sharp. Two separate companies, until Replacements found a catalog of RS in the Libbey archives and jumped to the wrong conclusion. </p><p><br /></p><p>Rock Crystal, in the twentieth century meant and means light cut wares which have been acid polished, instead of mechanically polished. It was a marketing term attempting to give more value to something which had less work involved in it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cherryhill, post: 6093, member: 70"]A few things need clarified here. First and foremost, Libbey and Rock Sharp were two separate companies until Libbey bought out Rock Sharp. They sold old stock until it was gone, but Libbey never made glass or cuttings on or for Rock Sharp. Two separate companies, until Replacements found a catalog of RS in the Libbey archives and jumped to the wrong conclusion. Rock Crystal, in the twentieth century meant and means light cut wares which have been acid polished, instead of mechanically polished. It was a marketing term attempting to give more value to something which had less work involved in it.[/QUOTE]
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