American Cut Glass Association (ACGA) - Jim Havens' "Guide to American Brilliant Cut Glass"

Introduction - Introduction to Cut and Engraved Glass

Composition - The Composition of Lead Glass Used in Cutting

Blanks - Blanks Provided by Manufacturers for the Cutting of Glass

Cutting - Types of Cutting Employed by Nineteenth Century Glass Cutters

Motifs - Cut-Glass Motifs Available to Designers of Cut-Glass Patterns

Rims - Rim Treatments Used on Nineteenth/Twentieth Century Products

Engraving - Types of Engraving Found on Collectible Glass of the Period

Patterns - Pattern Names Chosen by Manufacturers and Cutting Shops

Russian - The Russian and Persian Patterns; the Burgess Patterns

Patented - Glass Patents Granted by the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office

Catalogs - Four Cut-Glass Catalogs from Three Companies That Were Operating during the Early Brilliant Period

Colored - Colored Cut and Engraved Glass, Domestic and Imported

Foreign - Foreign Cut Glass on American Tables

Fakes - Fakes, Forgeries, and Reproductions That Bemuse Us

Repairs - To Repair or Not to Repair Damaged Glass? A Timely Question with No Single (or Simple) Answer

Bibliography - Further Reading

The works consulted in the Bibliography file include -- and are limited to -- books that were used in the writing of all of the sites. Periodicals (serials) that were used are cited in the Notes sections that are found at the end of most files.

Overhead view of a celery tray with turned-over (rolled) sides, shape (blank) no. 266, by the Libbey Glass Company of Toledo, OH. Cut in the company's own variation of its moderately expensive Ellsmere pattern, a design typical of the elaborate patterns that were popular at the turn of the twentieth century (Image: Internet).