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<p>[QUOTE="msgood2shoe, post: 178422, member: 69"]All I can tell you is that the design is gray/wheel cut, not etched. The frosted look is due to the cuts not being polished. There were lots of decorating companies that bought undecorated wares aka blanks, and then cut the designs. Most of the companies have never been documented, nor have the patterns they produced. In fact, because they patterns were cut, they generally were not protected by copyrights or design patents, so you will see the same or similar designs from different decorators. </p><p><br /></p><p>And to add to the bad news, once decorated by someone other then the manufacturer of the glass, buyers generally don't care who made the glass, so if you are able to determine a manufacturer, it won't add much to the value of the pieces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="msgood2shoe, post: 178422, member: 69"]All I can tell you is that the design is gray/wheel cut, not etched. The frosted look is due to the cuts not being polished. There were lots of decorating companies that bought undecorated wares aka blanks, and then cut the designs. Most of the companies have never been documented, nor have the patterns they produced. In fact, because they patterns were cut, they generally were not protected by copyrights or design patents, so you will see the same or similar designs from different decorators. And to add to the bad news, once decorated by someone other then the manufacturer of the glass, buyers generally don't care who made the glass, so if you are able to determine a manufacturer, it won't add much to the value of the pieces.[/QUOTE]
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