Topic: Crystal - Making, Decorating and Characteristics

[Frank]

A basic article on these subjects extracted from the 1977 Thos. Webb & Edinburgh Crystal catalogue, has been added to Scotland's Glass. HERE

The entire catalogue is only available via the Glass Study.

[aa]

Very interesting. I wonder whether the writer's mother tongue was English? It reads as if it has been translated from another language.

[Frank]

I doubt it, probably Publicitish.

First time I came across the term 'Cords'... Kristi what do you think of that one  I vill be checking all my cut glass for bits of old rope now.

[krsilber]

I've heard the term cords before.  Cords are especially common in high-lead glass - or especially hard to avoid, anyway.  I guess they call them cords because they can be long and thin, like a string.  Interesting that they talk about it, and say perfection is rarely achieved - sounds like they have a problem with them.  It doesn't seem to be much of an issue in ABP glass that I know of.  I'll have to look into that.

I wonder how long they've been using acid polishing. 

Nice little article!  Thanks for posting it.

[Frank]

You can read everything in the Study.