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  • Fact Check: Cut Glass or Molded Pattern Glass?
    A common mistake new buyers and collectors of glass will sometimes make is to look at a piece of glass with a molded pattern and mistake it for glass onto which a pattern or design has been manually ‘cut.’ On occasion, too, if this error is brought to the attention of some dealers, they may even insist no misidentification has taken place. They will state that their description of a molded pattern as ‘cut’ is correct and base this perception on inaccurate glass nomenclature which may be found in many places elsewhere on the Internet.
  • Green Glass is NOT Vaseline Glass
    Vaseline glass is a peculiar yellow to yellow/green glass that will fluoresce. When exposed to ultraviolet light it glows a bright green color. This bright green color can only be observed while a piece of Vaseline glass is under UV light.

    Made 1840 to the present. 'Vaseline glass' is not a term that properly references any colored glass that may glow under black light. 'Vaseline Glass' is always yellow to yellow/green in color, by definition. Similar in color to its namesake, 'Vaseline.'
  • Sandwich Glass
    The Boston and Sandwich Glassworks Company of Sandwich, Massachusetts, had its beginnings in the mid-1820’s. Deming Jarves, the founder of the company, convinced skilled glass artisans - individuals respected as glass producers from all over the world including England and Bohemia, to come and work for his company.



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