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Title: Crockery & glass journal
Year: 1875 (1870s)
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Subjects: Pottery Glass Glassware
Publisher: New York : G. Whittemore & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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any other colors which areto be classed as only half bad. To comply with the tastes of those who like lighting 242 glassware where variation in appearance is desired with-out going so far as to demand purely surface decoration,there has been a tendency to work designs into the glass-ware itself most delicately in solid color, or else let itgo as sufficient to merely work a design into the glass-ware itself. Various methods of the glass-makers artmake it entirely possible to handle both of these problemsvery effectively. Take the Adam style of design with its reading purposes) as well as a good looking one. To besure, right before our eyes there stands the table lamp.You cannot help seeing it. When you visit your neighborsyou are sure to see what your neighbors have; and, de-pend upon it, your neighbors are very quick to size upwhat you yourself have and measured you as artistic,sensible or otherwise, as the case may be. As we callaround at each others homes, there is not a mothers son
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BY THE J. D. BERGEN CO. palmetto leaf and its dainty garland and wreath varia-tions, there you find for table lamps themes that can bedeveloped almost without limit. A table lamp, when you come to think of it, is very,very close indeed to the home dweller—whether he be inthe country, town, or city; the home of the fanner, thesuburbanite, or the flat-dweller. In every residence,modest or pretentious, there you will find the table lamp. There is no reason in the world why science and artshould not combine to give users a practicable lamp (for of us that does not size up first that which is directlybefore his vision. The table lamp certainly stands outforemost in this respect. There probably is no way onwhich money can be spent to really better enjoyment andadvantage from every consideration than upon good tablelamps. Buy a cheap, ugly lamp, and you never have oneminutes enjoyment from it from the day you got it. Youmay be able to get by with a second rate something-else,but a cheap la

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