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Here we have a variety of flint glass we're going to talk about this today and these are
some nice examples there's a number of patterns in each a number of different shapes in each
pattern that you can take a look at. This flint glass is in the era of 1850 a little
earlier a little later it was prior to the civil war of 1860 and the reason we call it
flint glass is because there is an awful lot of lead in here and when you pick up a piece
I can show you an example like this campo, if you pick it up and ring you can hear the
sound of the bell and bell is caused from the lead and after the civil war or during
the civil war they had to use the lead for bullets so they stopped putting lead into
the glass so you lost this tone so that's how you one way you can tell that this is
flint glass. And we have another we have another few varieties of flint glass here we can show
you today, these are campos and if you look around there's a number 3, or 4 we have goblets,
tumblers, they made them in shapes of oil lamps with patterns. We have what they call
a spooner a really pretty picture with an applied handle it was the way that the handle
they way the handle was applied to the back of the picture. Which was not perfected very
well during that period you can tell if you are looking at pictures that the majority
of them will see in the back the most of them are cracked the reason there cracked because
they didn't have the firing down to perfection, so if your looking at these pictures don't
be surprise that you see 9 out of 10 are cracked. We have honey dishes you can take a look at,
we have egg cups in different varieties, cover sugar bowls, uncovered sugar bowls, goblets,
here's a spill, and I think we have a wine cherry and I think that's all I have today,
but we'll talk about the patterns in a little bit.