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<p>[QUOTE="Cherryhill, post: 417965, member: 70"]Heavy is pretty relative. When tapped with a wooden pencil, does it ringgggg or tink? If it rings that makes it have some lead content, Most pressed glass coming from Europe in the last 50 years had lead in it to get around some import duties, and will ring. Lead wil also make it heavier than the same glass made without lead. </p><p>In any case, it is not OLD, pre WWI, which many now consider to be Old. </p><p>Some of us, whose grandparents were born before the Civil War have come to understand what Old really is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cherryhill, post: 417965, member: 70"]Heavy is pretty relative. When tapped with a wooden pencil, does it ringgggg or tink? If it rings that makes it have some lead content, Most pressed glass coming from Europe in the last 50 years had lead in it to get around some import duties, and will ring. Lead wil also make it heavier than the same glass made without lead. In any case, it is not OLD, pre WWI, which many now consider to be Old. Some of us, whose grandparents were born before the Civil War have come to understand what Old really is.[/QUOTE]
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