The 'Nailsea Crown Glass and Glass Bottle Manufacturers' was founded in 1788 at Nailsea near Bristol in England, and is known for its coloured novelty glass such as rolling-pins, canes, shoes, bells, top hats, model ships, pipes and other useful objects. A characteristic of Nailsea glass was splashed-on, flecked-on, or striped colour, and glass of this kind is often assigned to Nailsea disregarding the fact that it was made throughout the United Kingdom and also in America, and that is not possible to pin-point the place of origin.
Less known is the fact that these objects were ancillary to the main output of the glasshouse. It was originally founded to produce bottle glass and hand blown (crown) window glass. In the 1840s it commenced manufacture of sheet window glass and then rolled plate glass from the 1860s. The glassworks closed in 1873 when the local supplies more...
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