Curiosities of glass making : with details of the processes and productions of ancient and modern ornamental glass manufacture (1849)
Pellatt, Apsley, 1791-1863 · London : D. Bogue · leaf 116
us effect; for while the air from the lungs, passing through the tube, makes the mass of Glass hollow, the mould at the same time imparts to it the external form required. The mould being opened, the Glass—now in the form of a bottle—was withdrawn.” The mould A, as sketched, is termed an open and… … one piece for the body, c, and two pieces for the neck, (D D,) by which the seam down the body is avoided; although two slight seams are observable in the neck. E is an expanded ball of
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