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glass/porcelain?
jamie:
ed i'll go look and see how much there is and stock up for ya. whats milk glass?
Calendargirl:
trying to get a picture of it but you can search milk glass or fenton milk glass. It is a white depression era glass. hobknob style and others. It opaque and milky white.
here found this on wikipedia.org
Milk glass is a relatively recent name for opaque, milky white or colored glass, that is blown or pressed into a wide variety of shapes. Animal-shaped covered dishes are popular collectibles. First made in Venice in the 16th century, the white color is achieved through the addition of tin oxide. 19th-century glassmakers called milky white opaque glass "Opal". Other milk glass colors include blue, pink, yellow, brown, and black.
Made into decorative dinner-ware, lamps, vases, and costume jewelry, milk glass was highly popular during the fin de siecle. Pieces made for the wealthy of the Gilded Age are known for their delicacy and beauty in color and design, while Depression glass pieces of the 1930s and '40s are less so.
Milk glass has a considerable following of collectors, and many examples can be found on eBay. Some glass makers continue to produce it, including reproductions of popular collectible pieces and patterns.
jamie:
so if i find a nice collectable piece i can smash it and knap it. ;D
Calendargirl:
exactly!
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Hillbilly:
Jamie, that looks like old vitrolite or carrera glass. Like Eddie said, he has a bunch of it, it has the grooves on one side. I made this point out of a piece that must have been exactly like yours, I found it in an old (hundred-year-old) dump site out in the woods. Knapped great, and the color is cool. Some of the sharpest stuff I've ever fooled with, I cut my finger to the bone on a flake from this point.
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