Old English glassesAn account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the eighteenth centuryWith introductory notices, original documents, etc . the Attorney-General—the rights ofThomas Tilson, for the sole making of Christal Glasses and Looking GlassPlates of all sorts of Glass whatsoever, are specially reserved. The Proclamationof 1664, and the new era—far more important than that of which Mansel was theexponent—which was opening for native glass-work, made it very desirable thatthe glass-sellers should be united. With further regard to Tilsons invention, it was
Old English glassesAn account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the eighteenth centuryWith introductory notices, original documents, etc . the Attorney-General—the rights ofThomas Tilson, for the sole making of Christal Glasses and Looking GlassPlates of all sorts of Glass whatsoever, are specially reserved. The Proclamationof 1664, and the new era—far more important than that of which Mansel was theexponent—which was opening for native glass-work, made it very desirable thatthe glass-sellers should be united. With further regard to Tilsons invention, it was not a reversion to thepractice of extracting glass from flints which was in question, because theAttorney-General set the petitions for that process aside. It is certain that theconstituents of the frit and its preparation were affected by Tilsons processrather than the character of the furnaces, that more brilliant crystal as dis-tinguished from crystalline glass was the result, and that his main object wasthe making of looking-glass plates, though he also made drinking-vessels. Weare therefore forced to the conclusion that Tilsons invention of 1663 was Glass. r^ . F 1 ^/.^ -^A<S
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