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 | | a nice little site from England with great art work and some discussions on stained glass. | | | a gallery of fused glass art by Herbert Katstaller | | | The most comprehensive collection of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany found anywhere. |
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http://www.fantasyinglass.com/SiteDoc/links.html
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| Â | Research Programs - BOOKLIST FOR THE BARGER-SUPPES COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON GLASS |
| | E1G Wilson, Rick 1987 748.8 Elville, E. PAPERWEIGHTS AND OTHER Spring E51P GLASS CURIOSITIES 1954-70 748.2913 ELSHOLZ COLLECTION OF Richard Bourne E49 EARLY AMERICAN GLASS, Auction Galleries VOL. | | | Vols.1-4 748.2 Glass Gallery GLASS OF FOUR CENTURIES, Vienna, Aus. | | | This material in not catalogued into the county computer system. |
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http://www.glassclub.org/barger_sup.htm
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| Â | A Crown Glass Shader |
| | This shader will, however, support glass with a reflective and refractive surface, with diffuse, ambient, and specular color components. | | | Now we will create a shader for a crown glass. | | | Crown glass is characterized by having only a small amount of chromatic dispersion. |
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http://www.warpax.com/raybmrt/crownglass.html
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| Â | Crown glass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The process was kept a careful trade secret, for example the first crown glass made in London was not until 1678. | | | This page was last modified 17:29, 10 Nov 2004. | | | Crown glass is either of two kinds of glass. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_glass_process
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| Â | Nailsea Glass from the Glass Encyclopedia |
| | This is a comprehensive guide to identifying Bagley Glass. | | | The Nailsea Crown Glass and Bottle Manufacturers were one amongst many who made this kind of glass, and they gave their name to this style of glass, very little of which was actually made at Nailsea, it was made all over the country. | | | For a period glassworks in England were not allowed to make Flint Glass as well as non-flint glass. |
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http://www.glassencyclopedia.com/Nailseaglass.html
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| | Usually there were other impurities which made it softer than modern soda-lime glass. | | | These are found to be still razor sharp after tens of thousands of years, but again, this glass is mainly silica and alumino-silicates and is much tougher than window glass. | | | In Mediaeval times panes of glass were often made by the Crown glass process. |
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http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/Glass/glass.html
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| Â | Recommended Reading |
| | (This book is one of the earlier books written on cut glass and early period glass) | | | The following is a list of books written about American Brilliant Period Cut Glass. | | | This catalog is a fine quality reproduction of the original and is a must for cut glass collectors in help with pattern identification. |
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http://www.cutglass.org/recommen1.htm
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| Â | The London Crown Glass Company - The History of Glass |
| | 1678 CROWN GLASS was first produced in London. | | | 1330 French glassmakers produced CROWN GLASS for the first time at Rouen. | | | The London Crown Glass Company - The History of Glass |
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http://www.londoncrownglass.co.uk/History.html
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| | Jones, Olive and Catherine Sullivan, 1985, The Parks Canada Glass Glossary for the Description of Containers, Tableware, Flat Glass, and Closures. | | | Ivor Noël Hume, in his volume A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1970), presents a very readable overview of 18th and early 19th-century artifacts commonly found on North American sites of that period. | | | Lee, Ruth Webb 1946 Early American Pressed Glass: A Classification of Patterns Collectible in Sets Together with Individual Pieces for Table Decorations. |
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http://www.reedfarmstead.com/html/references.htm
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| Â | The London Crown Glass Company Ltd |
| | been specialist suppliers of period window glass, including handblown cylinder sheet glass and our products are frequently specified by leading conservation professionals, including architects and organisations such as The National Trust. | | | Their glass is glazed in many listed buildings including palaces, castles, country houses and buildings in conservation areas. | | | Their website details the history of window glass in the UK, methods and information on the manufacture of our range of period window glass and advice on how to choose the most appropriate glass. |
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http://www.buildingconservation.com/directory/2y101.htm
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| Â | Optical White Crown Spectacle B270 Glass |
| | © Copyright 2000 Instrument Glasses, Inc. All rights reserved | | | White Crown Spectacle is a clear, high transparent crown glass with very high transmission in the visible light range as well as the infrared and ultraviolet region. |
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http://www.instrumentglasses.com/optical_white_crown_spectacle_.html
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| Â | Glass Insulators Reference Site |
| | Glass insulators were first produced in the 1850's for use with telegraph lines. | | | As technology developed insulators were needed for telephone lines, electric power lines, and other applications. | | | If you have questions or comments, please contact Bill Meier using this Feedback Form. |
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http://www.insulators.com/
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| Â | The crown glass cutter and glazier's manual (in MARION) |
| | Click on any of the following to start a new search: | | | At head of leader frame: Corning Museum of Glass Library. | | | The crown glass cutter and glazier's manual [microform] / by William Cooper. |
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http://js-catalog.cpl.org/MARION/ACT-9422
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Topic: Crown glass