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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;msgood2shoe, post: 205327, member: 69&quot;]Wheel cutting, aka gray cut, was a relatively easy skill to master as compared to the years of apprenticeship needed to be able to do brilliant cut decorating.&nbsp; Consequently, entrepreneurs would purchase the machines necessary set up both large and small shops, then purchase their glass from whichever glass company they could get a good price from. The names of many of these shapes, especially the small ones, were never known or are now lost. For the most part, the designs are simple enough that you will find the same or similar decor from various decorators. </p><p><br /></p><p>While glass companies did do some wheel cutting themselves, in most cases the glass was purchased, decorated and then sold to retailers by someone other than the glass company who made the glass.</p><p><br /></p><p>For these reasons, it is usually impossible to ID a particular decorator and wheel cut patterns are usually not helpful in IDing glass. </p><p><br /></p><p>It is generally easy to tell if a piece has been decorated with a wheel vs acid.&nbsp; The shape of the elements of the design is usually indicative, and you can actually see parallel lines within the shapes of the decor on wheel cut pieces. </p><p><br /></p><p>Etching uses stencils with was resist and acid to produce the designs.&nbsp; The design themselves could be patented and therefore proprietary to the company who created the design.&nbsp; Acid etch decor are most often done by the glass manufacturer and are therefore useful in IDing who made the glass.&nbsp; A few decorating companies bought glass and applied their own designs, Lotus is one that did this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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