Thankfully we are all entitled to our opinions and I stand by my ability to forgive a journalist for saying that the colour green was used, especially as in Mark Hill's book on pages 21 and 22 he also says green was used, so maybe it is not incorrect information after all.
It did seem to me to be rather picky to say 'we can happily say is complete twaddle' or ' but that might be because they're a bit colour blind'.
However, I am neither a Whitefriars nor a Mdina glass collector and my comments were based purely on the newspaper article and the words used by the reporter.
I am certain there was no intention on his part to defraud and like you m, I too abhor sellers who intentionally set out to miss-sell an item because it looks like a particular make, whether it be Whitefriars or any other manufacturer. I am sure in this case this was not the intention.
Any form of 'advertising' and promotion of a business will inevitably increase the success of any enterprise, and bearing in mind that only two years before this article was written Harris was almost penniless, I feel certain that this article and many newspaper adverts at the time would have gone a long way to helping to promote the business. Of course people bought the glass because they liked it, that goes without saying, but if you don't know it is there then you won't see and buy it.