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Collectible Glass Figurine
Collectible Glass Figurines come in every gloriously rich color of the spectrum.
Depending on the coloring ions added to the mixture any dazzling hue can be obtained in these alluring collectible glass figurines.
Glass itself from which these collectible figurines are made today is most likely the oldest inorganic material known to man. When volcanoes erupted or lightning struck the earth and super heated sand, as it cooled it was turned into glass.
This first happened as best we can tell, about 9000 years ago, but has been immensely refined into our collectible figurines of the present. Glass like that used in collectible figurines is thought to have first been created by man around the third millennium BC, sometime during the Bronze Age. Pieces of well made glass were found in Mesopotamia that is believed to date from around 3000 BC.
Egyptian collectible glass beads have been discovered that date back to about the middle of the second millennium BC. Glass at that time considered very precious it was even compared to gold.
Glass blowing was most likely discovered along the Eastern Mediterranean, probably in Syria, somewhere around 1000 BC. Glassblowers could blow molten glass into a prepared mold or instantly fabricate elaborate and symmetrical collectible figurines at the “gather” end of the tube.
This figurine art would revolutionize collectible glass production for the next three centuries. Around the end of the thirteenth century the Venetians became a major glass center that supplied us with a link connecting ancient collectible glass making with the modern art of glass figurines that is known for their brilliance and imagination.
Somewhere around 1550 AD the craftsmen of the island of Murano started using potash made sea plants and quarts sand to produce distinctly authentic collectible crystal glass vessels and figurines. Within the next hundred and fifty years nearly half of the island’s 7000 population became directly involved in the glassmaking industry this includes, treasured collectible figurines.
From the Glass Dictionary “it can be said that glass is a super cooled liquid”, also it can be used for collectible figurines as well as electrical and thermal insulators.
Borosilicate is a glass which does not contain halogen and as a general rule is used for electron tubes. The high silicon oxide glass similar to quartz that is used in heat treatment and sterilizing lamps is called the heat resistant glass. (Just thought you should know.)
Glass in all forms stand up heroically to the vicious effect of the sun, wind and rain; thus makes excellent material for indoors and out side collectible figurines.
In the world today everyone would appreciate the thoughtfulness of one of these fascinating collectible glass figurines as a friendship gift or just to say thinking of you. When searching for that special notion to enhance your office or study décor, maybe bring the admiration of everyone in the living room or den, look into today’s enchanting creations of collectible glass figurines.
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