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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comes hardest atthis point will not cut into the bowl outline. If a tip atthe back is to be struck up, enough stock for it must beleft at this point. A tip calls for a corresponding die,for except it is needed for a single spoon only, the filingon of a tip is too lengthy and costly. The stem must beleft thick and rigid, and the bowl even and strong, sothat there will be no tendency for it to buckle and breakafter it is shaped, a fault that we find often enough inthe old coin spoons, and one that patchwork can nevermake good. The temptation of the trade, which as we said beforesells by weight, is to recommend the extremely heavygrades and need not hold with the forged spoon, forforging leaves the metal harder than does the die Struckmethod. One may better give attention to balance, choos-ing a weight that seems in keeping with the more re-fined quality of the dinner service, which latter, when itis sold by weight, as we find in its boarding house form,certainlv gives us the creeps. 43
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