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2. Lead glass - Wikipedia

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   Cut glass wine glass made of lead glass. Lead glass, commonly called crystal, is a variety of glass in which lead replaces the calcium content of a typical potash glass. [1] Lead glass contains typically 18–40% (by mass) lead(II) oxide (PbO), while modern lead crystal, historically also known as flint glass due to the original silica source, contains a minimum of 24% PbO. [2]

3. Casket (decorative box) - Wikipedia

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   A casket [1] is a decorative box or container that is usually smaller than a chest and is typically decorated. In recent centuries they are often used as boxes for jewelry, but in earlier periods they were also used for keeping important documents and many other purposes. [2] Many ancient caskets are reliquaries, for both Buddhist and Christian ...

4. Decorative box - Wikipedia

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   A decorative box is a form of packaging that is generally more than just functional, but also intended to be decorative and artistic.

5. Limoges Box - Wikipedia

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   The first Limoges trinket boxes were long narrow containers that were created for expensive needles. From here, other shapes of limoges porcelain boxes evolved. The earliest were those that held thimbles and embroidery scissors and then round flat Limoges boxes were formed and used as powder boxes, and/or snuff boxes. Under Louis XIV these ...

6. Trinket - Wikipedia

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   A trinket may refer to: A small showy piece of jewellery, such as a jewel or a ring. Trinket Island, an island of the Nicobar Islands Trinket Bay, a village on the island; Trinket snake, common name for Elaphe helena, a species of colubrid snake; The original name of New Zealand rock band The Datsuns; A troll girl in the comic series Elfquest

7. Nachtmann (glass manufacturer) - Wikipedia

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   Nachtmann or F. X. Nachtmann Bleikristallwerke GmbH (English: F. X. Nachtmann Lead Crystal Works Ltd.) was a fine glass maker, founded in 1834 by Michael Nachtmann in Unterhütte, Oberpfalz. In 1900 the company was taken over by Zacharias Frank who moved the headquarters to Neustadt an der Waldnaab.