The glass collector; a guide to old English glass by Percival MacIver

Author:Percival, MacIver
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Glassware, Glassware
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead & Co.
Published: 1919-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

" Freemason's Secret." P. 1760.

" Buyers should beware/' however, as they are reproduced at the present day in very quaint designs, not really with fraudulent intent, but simply as a continuance of the old customs, which have never died out. The majority of the modern ones are made with the clipped foot (i.e., there has never been a pontil mark). The generality of the old Masonic glasses were of the type known as Hogarths, but with an enormously thick foot to stand rapping loudly on the table in response to a toast, a custom called firing, which would shatter any-

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