Depression Glass from Tri-State Antiques


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"Little is known about man's first attempt to make glass.  The Roman historian Pliny attributed it to the Phoenician sailors.  He recounted how they landed on a beach, propped a cooking pot on some blocks of natron they were carrying as cargo, and made a fire over which to cook a meal.  To their surprise, the sand beneath the fire melted and ran in a liquid stream that later cooled and hardened into primitive glass."


" That said, no one really knows how glass came to be made.  It is believed that glassmaking was discovered, perhaps accidentally, by Mesopotamian potters while they were firing their wares.  The first man-made glass was probably a mixture of finely ground sand and minerals heated and fused in a furnace.  This mixture could then be applied as a decorative glaze onto the surface of stone or clay objects (such as beads) producing a hard, shiny outer layer.  It was later discovered that if the glaze were thick enough, it would stand by itself.  Pieces of cold glass could then be ground, worn away by rubbing it with stones, or sand and water, to the desired shape.  Glass beads, mulets and small containers have been found that may have been made as early as 2,000 B.C."

(Courtesy of The Corning Museum of Glass)

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