Collecting Old Glass, English and Irish
THE COLLECTORS’ POCKET SERIES EDITED BY SIR JAMES YOXALL, M.P.
COLLECTING OLD GLASS
COLLECTING OLD GLASS ENGLISH AND IRISH
BY J. H. YOXALL
Author of “The Wander Years” “The A B C about Collecting” “More about Collecting”
The glass of fashion and the mould of form : Hamlet, iii. 1
LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN, LTD
First published January 1916 New Impression March 1925
Printed in Great Britain
I hope the reader may find that this book, though smaller than others on the same subject, is more helpful and even more comprehensive than they are; that it deals with the glass articles which they mention and with others which they omit; that it simplifies and classifies the study and practice of glass-collecting more than has been done in print heretofore; and that it can do these things because it is written out of personal knowledge, gained from much experience, and not from hearsay or from other books.
Diffuseness has been avoided, but this, I hope, has enabled me to make the book the more lucid, as well as the more succinct. At any rate, it affords hints, general rules, and warnings more numerous and more practical than any published until now; I have also tried to give to it a quality which reviewers have found present in my other books on Collecting—that is, a simplicity and clearness of explanation, done at the most difficult and necessary points, and in an interesting way. Moreover, this book has had the great advantage of revision (before printing) by Mr. G. F. Collins, of 53 the Lanes, Brighton, a pupil of Mr. Hartshorne’s, and well known to all principal collectors of old glass. Most of the illustrations represent typical pieces in my own collection, but for some of the finest I have to thank the kindness of Mrs. Devitt, of Herontye, East Grinstead, a collector indeed. The illustrations do not represent relative sizes to the same scale.
Sir J. H. Yoxall
COLLECTING OLD GLASS ENGLISH AND IRISH
NEITHER TOO RARE NOR TOO PLENTIFUL
THE TIME TO COLLECT IS NOW
SUCH CONNOISSEURSHIP NOT DIFFICULT
ADVANTAGES ASSOCIATED WITH GLASS
COLLECTABLE GLASS ARTICLES
THE HUNT FOR IT
THE COLLECTOR’S RANGE
1. THE TINTS OF OLD GLASS
2. THE SOUND OF OLD GLASS
3. THE QUALITY OF OLD GLASS METAL
4. THE WEIGHT OF OLD GLASS
5. THE SIGNS OF USE AND WEAR
6. THE PONTIL-MARK
7. THE WORKMANSHIP
THE ORIGIN OF CUT-GLASS
THE “WATERFORD” STYLE OF CUTTING
THE “STOURBRIDGE” CUTTING
THE “BRISTOL” CUTTING
“NEWCASTLE” CUTTING
THE STAR AT THE BASE
MOULDED GLASS
ENGRAVED GLASS
“BRISTOL”
“BRISTOL” AND “NAILSEA”
“WROCKWARDINE”
“SUNDERLAND”
MISCELLANEA
GREEN, PURPLE, AND YELLOW WINE GLASSES
THE LUMPY STEM
THE STOUT STEM
THE EXTENSIVE FOOT
THE RAISED FOOT
THE DOMED FOOT
THE HIGH INSTEP FOOT
THE HEMMED OR FOLDED FOOT
THE “NORWICH” FOOT
THE FIRING GLASS FOOT
GENERAL RULES
“THUMB” GLASSES
THE SQUARE FOOT
THE FEET OF TUMBLERS
1. THE BALUSTER STEM
THE COLLAR IN THE BALUSTER STEM
THE OLDER BALUSTERS
COINS IN THE BALUSTER STEMS
“TEARS” IN THE STEM
2. THE DRAWN-OUT OR PLAIN ROUND STEM
3. THE CORRUGATED ROUND STEM
4. THE AIR-SPIRAL STEM
5. THE COTTON-WHITE SPIRAL STEM
6. COLOURED SPIRAL STEMS
7. CUT PLAIN-GLASS STEMS
SMALL LUMP OR BEAD AT BOTTOM OF BOWL
1. ALE AND BEER GLASSES
2. CIDER GLASSES
3. CHAMPAGNE OR MUM GLASSES
4. RUMMERS AND MUGS
5. SPIRIT GLASSES AND CORDIAL GLASSES
6. COACHING GLASSES AND FUDDLING GLASSES
7. TOASTMASTER GLASSES
8. “HOGARTH” GLASSES
9. TAVERN AND KITCHEN GLASSES
10. YARD OF ALE GLASSES
11. “THIMBLEFUL” GLASSES
THE ROSE GLASSES
THE “JACOBITE”
THE “WILLIAMITE”
THE “HANOVERIAN”
BOTTLES
DECANTERS
JUGS
1. CANDLESTICKS
2. LUSTRES
3. LAMPS
COMPORTS
SWEETMEAT GLASSES
“CAPTAIN” OR “MASTER” GLASSES
JELLY GLASSES
CUSTARD GLASSES
PASTE
GLASS BEADS AND TAWS
INSCRIBED GLASSES
ROSES, OAK-LEAVES, BIRDS, AND BUTTERFLIES ON GLASS
OLD GLASSES “ENGRAVED UP”
THE COLLECTOR’S INSTINCT
LIKELIHOOD AND IMPROBABILITY
THE ABSOLUTE FRAUDS
THE “MODERN ANTIQUE”
OUT-OF-THE-WAY PIECES
FAKED JACOBITE GLASSES, ETC.
FAKED SPIRAL GLASSES
SHAM WINE COOLERS AND FINGER BOWLS
OLD DUTCH GLASS
CHIPPED OR BROKEN PIECES
“TOUT PASSE, TOUT CASSE, TOUT LASSE”
