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Antique Glass for sale. Antique Glass for Sale and Buying Antique Glass including Georgian Glass and glass by Rene Lalique, Emile Galle, Daum, Whitefriars and other master glass makers, as well as vaseline glass and carnival glass.
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Buying Antique Glass gives the professional or amateur collector access to some of the most beautiful items artists and designers have ever produced. The exact origins of the process of glass making are unsure but it is thought that it first appeared in Mesopotamia about 3000 years B.C. probably as a result of experimenting with glazes for pottery and first used as an alternative to precious gemstones as it could be coloured and cut. Glass reached Egypt around 1540 B.C. and By Roman times glass was being blown in large quantities to form containers for liquids and for drinking vessels. Some beautiful pieces were being made in early times using coloured glass, trailed decoration even double-walled pieces containing gold leaf decoration and by the first few centuries B.C. the millefiore style had been invented. Some of the greatest pieces of Roman glass are the cameo cut examples such as the Portland Vase from the end of the first century B.C. Glass was produced in the Islamic Kingdom from the seventh century where they continued using similar techniques to the Romans. The range of antique glass for sale is amazing and there is a style, section or specific area to suit every antique glass collector.