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2. Mercury glass - Wikipedia

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   Mercury glass. Mercury glass (or silvered glass) is glass that was blown double walled, then silvered between the layers with a liquid silvering solution, and sealed. Although mercury was originally used to provide the reflective coating for mirrors, elemental mercury was never used to create tableware. Silvered glass was free-blown, then ...

3. Shiny Brite - Wikipedia

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   The Shiny Brite company produced the most popular Christmas tree ornaments in the United States throughout the 1940s and 1950s. In 1937, Max Eckardt established Shiny Brite ornaments, working with the Corning Glass company to mass-produce glass Christmas ornaments. Eckardt had been importing hand- blown glass balls from Germany since around ...

4. Christmas ornament - Wikipedia

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   Christmas ornaments, baubles, globes, "Christmas bulbs", or "Christmas bubbles" are decoration items, usually to decorate Christmas trees. These decorations may be woven, blown ( glass or plastic ), molded ( ceramic or metal ), carved from wood or expanded polystyrene, or made by other techniques. Ornaments are available in a variety of ...

5. Holiday lighting technology - Wikipedia

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   A variety of sizes, shapes and colours can be seen among these lights. Holiday lighting technology has been subject to considerable development and variation since the replacement of candles by electric lights. [citation needed] While originally used during the Christmas holidays as Christmas lights, modern electric light arrays have become ...

6. Ormolu - Wikipedia

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   Ormolu. A garniture of an ormolu clock and candelabra at the Palace of Versailles in France. Ormolu ( / ˈɔːrməˌluː /; from French or moulu 'ground/pounded gold') is the gilding technique of applying finely ground, high-carat gold – mercury amalgam to an object of bronze, and objects finished in this way. The mercury is driven off in a ...

7. Lycurgus Cup - Wikipedia

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   The Lycurgus Cup is a Roman glass 4th-century cage cup made of a dichroic glass, which shows a different colour depending on whether or not light is passing through it: red when lit from behind and green when lit from in front. [ 1] It is the only complete Roman glass object made from this type of glass, [ 2] and the one exhibiting the most ...