The people of the ancient world very likely discovered ways to make glass accidentally while firing what is called Faience, which is a kind of pottery that is glazed with a sodium compound. If the glaze mixed with the clay prior to firing, the result would be a glassy substanced created in the clays body.
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Most of us collect glassware in patterns, dinnerware, stemware and blown glass, but there’s a "whole nother world" out there so to speak, that can be interesting historically, fun to pursue and quite lucrative if you’re into buying and selling of antiques.
Collecting old bottles is something not many people do think about, but its quite [...]