INDEX

• Absolute frauds, 97
• Air spiral, 41, 50
• Air-spiral stems, 50, 51
• Baluster stems, 40, 46, 47
• Beads, 93
• Beer glasses, 60
• Belfast-made glass, 18
• Bell bowl, 56
• Blown ware, 26
• Bohemian glass, 13
• “Boot” glasses, 74
• Bottles, 76
• Bowl shapes, 56, 59
• Bowls, 79
• Bristol cut-glass, 31
• coloured glass, 35, 36
• opal glass, 35
• Butterfly, engraved, 20
• Caddy sugar-basin, 27, 88
• Candlesticks, 60, 81
• “Captain” glasses, 85
• “Central tube” stem, 53, 55, 66
• Champagne glasses, 53, 61
• Chipped or broken pieces, 103
• Cider glasses, 61
• Coaching glasses, 62, 63
• Coins in stems, 7, 47
• Collar in stem, 46
• Collectable articles, 6
• Collector’s instinct, 96
• range, 11
• Coloured glass, 35
• spirals, 54
• Communion vessel, 10
• Comports, 84
• Cork-made glass, 17
• Cotton-white spirals, 53
• Corrugated stems, 50
• Custard glasses, 87
• Cut-glass, 29
• stems, 55
• Decanters, 77
• Defects of quality, 20, 21
• “Diamond” cutting, 30
• Dome-foot, 41, 42
• Double ogee bowl, 58
• Drawn bowl, 49, 56
• “Drawn” stems, 49
• Drinking glasses, 40
• Dutch glass, 19, 21, 102
• Egg-cup bowl, 41, 57
• Engraved glass, 33
• “Engraved up,” 95
• Extensive feet, 41
• “Faked” glasses, 100
• Feel of glass, 21
• Feet of tumblers, 45
• “Fiat” glasses, 68, 69
• Firing glasses, 44
• Firing-glass foot, 43
• Folded foot, 43
• Fuddling glasses, 62, 63
• General guides and tests, 14
• hints, 95
• warnings, 95
• Girandoles, 82
• Glass knobs, 91
• pictures, 90
• Goblets, 12, 15, 41
• “Greek key” spirals, 54
• “Hanoverian” glasses, 71
• Hemmed foot, 43
• High instep foot, 42
• “Hobnail” cutting, 30
• Hogarth glasses, 64
• Hop and barley glasses, 50, 60
• Irish-made glass, 17
• Jacobean lamp, 27
• Jacobite glasses, 66, 68
• mottoes, 68
• Jelly glasses, 86
• “Joey” glasses, 62, 73
• Jugs, 77
• Kitchen glasses, 64
• Knife-rests, 80
• Knives, 80
• Knopped stems, 40
• Lamps, 27, 83
• Likelihood and improbability, 96
• Lipped ogee bowl, 58
• Lumpy stems, 40
• Lustres, 82
• “Master” glasses, 85
• Mirrors, 90
• “Modern antiques,” 98
• Mugs, 7, 62
• Mum glasses, 61
• Nailsea glass, 37
• Norwich foot, 43
• Oakleaf on glass, 63, 68
• Ogee bowl, 58
• “Old Pretender” glasses, 69
• Out-of-the-way pieces, 99
• Paper-weights, 37
• Paste, 92
• Pepper boxes, 88
• Pestles, 80
• Plain round stems, 49
• “Pomegranate” cutting, 31, 32
• Pontil-marks, 23, 24
• Punch-lifters, 79
• Quality of metal, 19
• Rectangular bowl, 57
• Rose glasses, 18, 59, 66
• Rummers, 16, 61
• Salt cellars, 39, 88
• Scratches, 22
• Shams, 101
• Signs of use and wear, 22
• “Silver” spirals, 50, 51
• Sounds, 18
• Spirit glasses, 62
• Spoons, 80
• Square foot, 45
• Star-cutting, 32
• Stems, 46–55
• Stourbridge glass, 31
• Stout stems, 41
• Straight-sided bowl, 57
• Stuart emblems, 66, 67
• Styles of cutting, 30, 31
• Sugar-basins, 27, 88
• crushers, 80
• Sunderland glass, 38, 39
• Sweetmeat glasses, 1, 85
• Tankards, 73
• Tavern glasses, 64
• Taws, 94
• “Tears” in stems, 48
• “Thimbleful” glasses, 65
• Thistle engraved, 67
• “Thistle” glass, 40
• Thumb glasses, 45
• Tints, 14, 20
• Toastmaster glasses, 63
• Toddy-lifters, 79
• “Trafalgar” glasses, 16, 97
• Tumblers, 73
• Venice glass, 12
• Waisted bowl, 58
• bell bowl, 57
• Waterford glass, 3, 17, 21, 30
• Weight, 21
• “Williamite” glasses, 71
• Window glass, 8
• Witch-balls, 8, 38
• Workmanship, 25
• Wrockwardine glass, 38
• “Yard of ale” glasses, 64