Think, too, of the money you could get nowadays for well-treated Art Deco ceramics, vintage kitchenware ... £1,450 for a Victorian silver-mounted glass bottle modelled as a fish and many others ...

Records date back to 1720 for a small glassworks off London's Fleet Street, but Britain's longest running glass house, best known as the Whitefriars factory, really came into its own when James Powell ...

The Beilby family of Newcastle: William, Richard and Mary were all skilled glass decorators who learned how to fire enamels onto glass and worked for different factories in the Newcastle area. Their ...

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