Here we have an English lidded goblet from 1730-1750. Now the rarest of glass by Ravenscroft dates from 1670, so although this isn’t by the great maker, it’s still exceptionally rare.

These glasses have been dated 1749. The glasses seem to have been used to record a family's history as several names are engraved on the sides. The contributor bought these in an antique shop 30 ...

Off the coast of Florida, several rare glass bottles were recovered from an 18th-century shipwreck. The ship was part of the 1715 Treasure Fleet, a group of ships that sank after sailing into a ...

That same year, businessman Albert Gallatin’s glass factory began operating along the Mon in New Geneva, Fayette County. By 1840, Pittsburgh had become “the pressed glass capital of the world ...

Westminster Abbey has very little medieval glass now remaining but there are good examples of glass from the 18th century to the present day. In the windows at the west end of the aisles of the nave ...