Identifier: crockeryglassjou74newy (find matches)
Title: Crockery & glass journal
Year: 1875 (1870s)
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Subjects: Pottery Glass Glassware
Publisher: New York : G. Whittemore & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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lamp business to day, having been established about1844, it must not be assumed that they are old-fash-ioned. On the contrary, they are most progressive,and are among the leaders in the manufacture of bothelectric and gas fixtures. Fig. 4 shows one of the many designs on viewat the New York warerooms of the Fostoria Glass Co.,66 West Broadway. With electricity the field is limitless. The ab-sence of danger from fire permits of its use in mostunlooked-for places. Its wires can be turned andtwisted in any direction—a fact that makes its capa-city for decorative purposes practically boundless.Here the fancy of the designer may roam at will.
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Fig. 12. sign though simple is beautiful. Although EdwardMiller & Co. are the oldest people in the kerosene Fig. 13. Nothing is too odd, nothing too elaborate. Wood,metal, clay, glass, or combinations of either or all,may be employed as vehicles to convey or conceal thethin wire through which the current is carried to thebulb. Typifying the advancement in the designing andconstruction of shades for gas or electric purposeswas a specimen found in another establishment. Itwas fashioned somewhat like a mushroom, except thatthe overhanging sides were longer and more grace-fully rounded than the contour of that edible fungus.The design was of a mosaic character, the varyingsizes and colors of glass being inlaid by hand. Therich effect created by this combination of possibly adozen different tones was made even more strikingby the odd floral effects accomplished by the syste-matic inlaying of the pieces. Despite the difficulty 14 of joining the many pieces of glass so that the floralrep

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