sandwich glass

sandwich glass
noun
Usage: usually capitalized S
Etymology: from Sandwich, Mass.
: blown, molded, or pressed glass made by the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company between 1825 and 1886 and now widely collected especially in some of its lacy pressed forms

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any of various forms of glassware manufactured at Sandwich, Mass., from 1825 to c1890.
[1930-35, Amer.]

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Sandwich glass,
glassware manufactured by the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company at Sandwich, Massachusetts, from 1825 to 1888. Sandwich glass often has elaborate designs to give a complex, lacelike effect.

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