Crockery & glass journal . FLORENCE Dinnerware. High Grade Decorations. Ready Sellers. HOTEL CHINA, Vitrified. HARDEST GLAZE IN THE WORLD. CRESTS, SPECIAL COLORS UNDER THE GLAZE. Cook Pottery Co., TRENTON, N. J. 5. /COLLECTORS of antique glass meet with the sameys discouragement ar5 do collectors of old potteryand porcelain, writes Edwin Atlee Barber in theSun, as almost every well-known variety of glasshas been counterfeited in recent years. Indeed, theglass collector has even a more difficult road to travelthan has the ceramist, since glass as a rule possessesno mark by which
Crockery & glass journal . FLORENCE Dinnerware. High Grade Decorations. Ready Sellers. HOTEL CHINA, Vitrified. HARDEST GLAZE IN THE WORLD. CRESTS, SPECIAL COLORS UNDER THE GLAZE. Cook Pottery Co., TRENTON, N. J. 5. /COLLECTORS of antique glass meet with the sameys discouragement ar5 do collectors of old potteryand porcelain, writes Edwin Atlee Barber in theSun, as almost every well-known variety of glasshas been counterfeited in recent years. Indeed, theglass collector has even a more difficult road to travelthan has the ceramist, since glass as a rule possessesno mark by which it may be identified and much of itpossesses no distinctive characteristics by which itmay be assigned to a particular period or attributedto a special factory If, therefore, it is sometimes diffi-cult to recognize the origin of genuine examples, howmuch more difficult is it to detect the reproductions. Among the most highly valued glass is that ofthe Middle Ages known as Saracenic glass. Ex-amples are now rare and exceedingly valuable, inconsequence of which the wily merchant of the nearerOrient has turned his talents to reproducing Saracenicand Persian glass with decorations in enamel have recently met with se
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