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<p>[QUOTE="Cherryhill, post: 1911547, member: 70"]Not to make a big deal of it, but the piece has the appearance of pressed glass, surface ground to give the appearance of frosted.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the US, glass without color is called crystal, the name of the color. The lead content doesn't enter in to the name. Once all glass was flint, high in lead content. eventually, after 1864 and the development of soda lime glass, flint meant colorless glass. Today colorless is crystal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cherryhill, post: 1911547, member: 70"]Not to make a big deal of it, but the piece has the appearance of pressed glass, surface ground to give the appearance of frosted. In the US, glass without color is called crystal, the name of the color. The lead content doesn't enter in to the name. Once all glass was flint, high in lead content. eventually, after 1864 and the development of soda lime glass, flint meant colorless glass. Today colorless is crystal.[/QUOTE]
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