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Glass Mall => Glass News => Topic started by: Frank on October 16, 2010, 11:32:40 PM

Title: Amen glasses - Dramatic Glass research published
Post by: Frank on October 16, 2010, 11:32:40 PM

Now and again mysteries of the past get solved but this is a rarity in the world of glass.

Geoffrey Seddon and Ian McKenzie have uncovered the 'probable' engraver of the important Amen Glass and presented their findings to an Edinburgh conference audience that included many specialists of this era!

Shrouded in secrecy for so long and assumed to be an English engraver.... but no... he was a Scot  :hiclp:

Read the first public announcement here (http://www.scotlandsglass.co.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=162:has-the-creator-of-the-jacobite-amen-glasses-been-revealed&catid=1:latest&Itemid=22)

Title: Re: Amen glasses - Dramatic Glass research published
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 17, 2010, 02:24:17 PM

It was a superb lecture; very convincing.