Excerpt from American Glassware Old and New: A Sketch of the Glass Industry in the United States and Manual for Collectors or Historical Bottles Collectors of antiquities have recently begun to turn their attention to those curious old de signs in glassware which illustrate events of im portance in our nation's progress, or attempt to portray the features of some of the personages who were prominent in the country's history. On account Oi the absence of distinguishing marks, the origin of these quaint old flasks and bottles and teacup plates has heretofore been en shrouded in doubt. Vj'hether they were of foreign or American production, none could posi tively say. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.