Chapter I: Preface

I hope the reader may find that this book, though smaller than others on the same subject, is more helpful and even more comprehensive than they are; that it deals with the glass articles which they mention and with others which they omit; that it simplifies and classifies the study and practice of glass-collecting more than has been done in print heretofore; and that it can do these things because it is written out of personal knowledge, gained from much experience, and not from hearsay or from other books.

Diffuseness has been avoided, but this, I hope, has enabled me to make the book the more lucid, as well as the more succinct. At any rate, it affords hints, general rules, and warnings more numerous and more practical than any published until now; I have also tried to give to it a quality which reviewers have found present in my other books on Collecting--that is, a simplicity and clearness of explanation, done at the most difficult and necessary points, and in an interesting way. Moreover, this book has had the great advantage of revision (before printing) by Mr. G. F. Collins, of 53 the Lanes, Brighton, a pupil of Mr. Hartshorne’s, and well known to all principal collectors of old glass. Most of the illustrations represent typical pieces in my own collection, but for some of the finest I have to thank the kindness of Mrs. Devitt, of Herontye, East Grinstead, a collector indeed. The illustrations do not represent relative sizes to the same scale.

J. H. YOXALL

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. OLD ENGLISH GLASSWARE 1

II. SEVEN GENERAL GUIDES AND TESTS 14

III. BLOWN WARE 26

IV. CUT, MOULDED, AND ENGRAVED WARE 29

V. OLD COLOURED GLASS 35

VI. OLD DRINKING GLASSES 40

VII. THE VARIOUS TYPES OF STEM 46

VIII. THE VARIOUS SHAPES OF BOWL 56

IX. OTHER STEMMED DRINKING GLASSES 60

X. JACOBITE, WILLIAMITE, AND HANOVERIAN
GLASSES 66

XI. TUMBLERS, TANKARDS, “JOEYS,” AND
“BOOT” GLASSES 73

XII. BOTTLES, DECANTERS, AND JUGS 76

XIII. BOWLS, LIFTERS, SUGAR-CRUSHERS,
SPOONS, ETC. 79

XIV. CANDLESTICKS, LUSTRES, AND LAMPS 81

XV. COMPORTS, SWEETMEAT, JELLY AND
CUSTARD GLASSES 84

XVI. SALT CELLARS, PEPPER BOXES, SUGAR
BASINS, ETC. 88

XVII. MIRRORS, GLASS PICTURES, GLASS KNOBS 90

XVIII. OLD PASTE, GLASS BEADS, AND TAWS 92

XIX. GENERAL HINTS AND WARNINGS 95

INDEX 107