Chapter I: Front Matter

_OLD GLASS
AND
HOW TO COLLECT IT_

_The Standard Book on the Subject._

A HISTORY OF ENGLISH STAINED
GLASS WINDOWS.

By MAURICE DRAKE. Fully Illustrated in Colour
and Half-tone. Foolscap folio. £2, 2s. net.

“One of the most beautiful, nay, most sumptuous, books
produced in recent years, and from that point of view the Author
and the publisher, the artist and the printer, and, indeed, also
the binder, are to be heartily congratulated. But it is also an
interesting book to read, although the subject is not everyone’s
subject, for it is written, not merely with knowledge, which one
can find anywhere on most subjects, but with knowledge touched
with humanity, which is the kind of knowledge that we want in
a book.”--_Daily Chronicle._

FIRST STEPS IN COLLECTING.

By Mrs GRACE VALLOIS, Author of “Antiques
and Curios in our Homes.” 64 Illustrations.
Picture Cover. 6s. net.

In this book G. M. Vallois has grappled successfully with the
problem of how to give the amateur a slight general knowledge
of a wide subject, without deluging him with technical details.

ANTIQUES AND CURIOS IN OUR HOMES.

By G. M. VALLOIS. 61 Illustrations. 6s. net.

In addition to being interesting to those who possess old furniture, etc., it should appeal to young persons making a home, as, even though they may not be able to buy Antique Furniture, it is of educational value to them, inasmuch as it teaches in a most fascinating manner the difference between Sheraton and Chippendale, between Wedgwood and Willow Pattern, etc.

OLD GLASS AND HOW
TO COLLECT IT

BY
J. SYDNEY LEWIS

ILLUSTRATED

LONDON
T. WERNER LAURIE LTD.
30 NEW BRIDGE STREET, E.C.4

The Author desires to express his best thanks to Miss Whitmore Jones, Mr Cole of Law, Foulsham & Cole, Mr A. Edwards of Messrs Edwards Limited, for their kind permission to include examples of old English and Irish glass from their Collections, and to Messrs Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge for allowing him to include the list of prices fetched by various specimens at their Sales.

He is also desirous of acknowledging the assistance he has received from the Authorities of the British and Dublin Museums, and also to the late Mr J. Herbert Bailey, to whom and to “The Connoisseur” he is indebted for several of the illustrations.

His indebtedness to the great work of Mr A. Hartshorne is one which he shares with every writer who takes as his subject “Old English Glass.”

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. INTRODUCTORY 1

II. EARLY ENGLISH GLASS 27

III. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY GLASS 55

IV. MEMORIAL GLASSES 95

V. BRISTOL AND NAILSEA GLASS 115

VI. IRISH GLASS 128

VII. CURIOUS AND FREAK GLASSES 154

VIII. FRAUDS AND IMITATIONS 166

IX. SOME HINTS TO COLLECTORS 182

CATALOGUE OF PRICES OF PRINCIPAL PIECES OF GLASS 191

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Early Bristol Glass; landscape painted by Edkin....._Frontispiece_

FIG.

1. Elizabethan Glass (Brit. Mus. Coll.) } } _To face page_ 42 2. Posset Cup (Charles II.) }

3. Feeding Cup (William III.) } } ” 48 4. Glass Panel (Charles II.) }

5. Glass Tankard with Coin blown in Base } } ” 50 6. Coin blown in Base of Tankard }

7. Air-twisted Stem Glasses.....” 62

8. Air-twisted Button and Baluster Stem Glasses.....” 66

9. Opaque-twisted Stem and Rose Glasses.....” 68

10. Double Ogee Bowls.....” 72

11. Ale Glasses and Sweetmeat Glasses.....” 74

12. Eighteenth-century Drinking Glasses.....” 76

13. Rummers and Baluster Stem Glasses.....” 84

14. Decanters and Salt-cellars (Eighteenth Cent.).....” 90

15. Candlesticks and Tapersticks.....” 92

16. Jacobean Rushlight Holder and Wine Glasses.....” 94

17. Jacobite Toasting Glasses.....” 96

18. Jacobite Goblets.....” 100

19. Jacobite Glass.....” 102

20. Memorial Toasting Glasses.....” 106

21. Memorial Glasses (Various).....” 108

22. A Nelson Glass and George IV. Coronation Glass.....” 110

23. Commemoration Glasses.....” 112

24. Tankards and Grog Glasses.....” 114

25. Old Bristol Glass Decanter and Mug.....” 120

26. Bristol Glass Vases and Candlesticks.....” 122

27. Bristol Glass Vases and Castors.....” 124

28. Early Nailsea Jugs.....” 126

29. Nailsea Jug and Mug.....” 128

30. Early Irish Glass.....” 130

31. Old Irish Salad Bowls and Celery Glasses.....” 132

32. Old Waterford Centrepiece, with Collar.....” 134

33. Old Waterford Preserve Jars and Bowls.....” 136

34. (1) Old Cork Decanters; (2) Old Waterford Decanters.....” 138

35. Old Cut Irish Decanters and Finger-basins.....” 140

36. Early Irish Fruit Dishes.....” 150

37. Masonic, Toasting, and Freak Glasses; an Early Cambridge Yard Ale Glass _Page_ 160

38. Saxon Glass.....” 30

39. Various Styles of Cutting.....” 7

40. Examples of Baluster Stems and Tear Glasses.....” 57

41. Tear Glasses.....” 61

42. Old English Glasses.....” 65