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flying free:
Page 77 here describes the ladies working at Defries and Sons pinning the chandelier parts together. 
It also describes male workers cutting and finishing the droplets, so it seems chandelier droplets were at least cut to shape and polished at Defries & Sons:

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Family_friend_ed_by_R_K_Philp/zNsEAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=defries+%26+sons+glass&pg=RA1-PA77&printsec=frontcover

flying free:

--- Quote from: flying free on January 26, 2025, 10:26:27 PM ---Page 77 here describes the ladies working at Defries and Sons pinning the chandelier parts together. 
It also describes male workers cutting and finishing the droplets, so it seems chandelier droplets were at least cut to shape and polished at Defries & Sons:

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Family_friend_ed_by_R_K_Philp/zNsEAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=defries+%26+sons+glass&pg=RA1-PA77&printsec=frontcover

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Just to clarify this comment, the reason I wrote that is because on page 66 into 67 of From Neuwelt to the Whole World, a book on Harrach glass production, it mentions the chandelier hangings which the glassworks began manufacturing in 1826.  It say their basic form was created using pressing pliers, and they were then refined by cutting (the source quoted for this in the book is "Weiss 1986, p. 28; Pazaurek 1923, p. 253".)
My point is that these could have been shipped wholesale from Harrach in Bohemia in the form made with pressing pliers ... and then cut at the receivers end.

See also page 87 third to last paragraph
'Neuwelt also produced chandelier hangings and other parts, but it was not factory policy to make finished chandeliers.'

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