Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1903 — The First Glass Caps. [ARTICLE]

The First Glass Caps.

The, first glass cups were made ,at Alexandria. Some were colored like Bohemian glass and decorated with glass pastes, imitating precious stones and cameos. Some were opaline, others clear as crystal and still others formed of opaque layers welded together like the famous Portland vase. In which the white upper layer had been cut away like that of a cameo, leaving a blue ground around the figures. .