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Introduction to Vintage Glass Light Shades
Glass-workers belong to an old tradition and discipline. Their handiwork has evolved into the glass lamp shades found as objects of indoor decoration in many houses today. The infiltration of these objects accelerated in the times of the Industrial Revolution, precisely when gas-fired and electric illumination was embedded into city grids. One towering figure was Louis Comfort Tiffany, famed for almost singlehandedly fashioning the industry of glass lamp shades.
The lamp shades are available in a dizzying array of shapes and designs. Large-scale production methods means artisan teams no longer slave to produce a trickle of products. Instead, popular and hot-selling designs can be issued at breakneck pace to reach many more homes.
The high malleability of glass is derived from the fact that glass becomes soft and flowing at high temperatures. In turn this leads to many stylistic possibilities. Controlling and shaping the glass is a profession dating back thousands of years. A large fraction of products from this profession was in items like glasses, lanterns and containers. The need to cover lightbulbs only came in the last one hundred and fifty years.
The molecular structure of glass is a blend of silicon and oxygen. In contrast to other materials, glass has no regularity in its crystal lattice. In fact, it's molecular structure is completely disordered, giving rise to a new class of substances which are, unsurprisingly, named "glasses". Some people point out that it's perpeptually a liquid because of evidence that it continues to flow, seen in old church windows that are thicker at the bottom than the top. However, this is likely to be an incorrect interpretation of observations as the flowing probably occurred most when the window was initially cast.
A craftsman of glass uses its soft, fluid-like properties at high temperatures to bend it to new shapes. He uses a hollow rod made of metal, called a blow pipe, to pick up the molten mass. By rolling it at once, and blowing into the mass, he can create a symmetrical, cylindrical shape that slowly becomes a glass lamp shade.
The artisan can improve upon his product further by adding finer details such as curling the edge of coloring the surface. Louis Comfort Tiffany pioneered the stained glass lamp shades by combining colored glass with iron rods. He drew inspiration from his past work in stained glass art. To color the glass, he added iron oxide impurities, and generated shapes of natural scenes or creatures with iron.
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What are these tranparent, light green glass balls?
Several years ago in the New Mexico desert I found on the ground three transparent, light green (aqua green) glass balls about the size of a jumbo marble. They were in the middle of nowhere laying on the ground. I never found anybody who could tell me what they are, can you?
In what part of New Mexico did you find them and was there anything else (ruins, structures, roads) around the area? Are they hollow or solid?
They are most likely NOT from the atomic bomb tests. New Mexico's Trinity Site (where the first atomic bombs were tested) is located on the White Sands Missile Range northwest of Alamogordo and is NOT open to the public.
While sand did fuze into glass at ground zero, it tends to form sheets instead of balls and there would be lots of it around (you would definitely know if you were at the Trinity Site - it is not the sort of place you could wander on by accident).
It is a bit of stretch, but what you might have are the glass marbles left over from an antique Codd-neck bottle (named for inventor Hiram Codd). These were bottles from the pre-bottlecap days of 1870s and 80s that were sealed by a glass marble in the neck of the bottle (held in place by the pressure of the contents). You opened it by pounding something down the neck to dislodge the marble (kids used to collect the left over marbles).
They were more popular in Europe, but the were also used in the US. Your find may have represented a spot where some cowboys or prospectors stopped to take a break and a drink.
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