Crown Milano Glass Pattern

Crown Milano was a popular and patented art glass pattern produced by the Mt. Washington Glass works in Boston, Massachusetts, during the 1890′s. The pieces have an opal or earth-toned ground to which heavy gold enameling has been applied. Some Crown Milano decoration includes beads and/or jewel-like stones. Crown Milano is typically marked by a crown within a wreath device, hence its name. Generally speaking, Crown Milano art glass is identical to an earlier, [...] Click here to continue reading.

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Mt. Washington Glass Works

Mt. Washington Glass Works

The seaport city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, once famous as a whaling center and featured as the home port in Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick, also hosted a thriving glass industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Foremost among its glass factories was the Mt. Washington Glass Works, originally founded in 1837 in South Boston (in the vicinity of a small hill known as “Mt. Washington.”) It relocated [...] Click here to continue reading.

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