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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cherryhill, post: 233785, member: 70&quot;]I&#039;m probably not the best to answer this, I&#039;m biased.</p><p><br /></p><p>When the effect was begun, ca. 1884, it was called Polka Dot.&nbsp; Early researchers ca. 1925 didn&#039;t know this and named it &quot;inverted thumbprint.&quot; As if a thumb could imprint glass and survive to make the second imprint. Within a year or two of its introduction the opalescent process became involved and we had white polka dots on a colored ground. I would call these opalescent polka dots. Within the next five&nbsp; years, (before 1890) uncolored circles within colored ground had been developed. The manufacturers simply called these Opalescent Wares. </p><p><br /></p><p>Since I seem to be a traditionalist, I see no reason to invent names for them, they have names their makers applied to them. Also, I don&#039;t expect their size would influence their name, but I suppose &quot;tiny&quot; and &quot;giant&quot; could be added. </p><p><br /></p><p>Fenton seems to have called their wares something, I guess their names could be used, too, but I haven&#039;t kept up with the new manufacturers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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