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What are my crystal glasses worth? In the past, in addition to linen, china and cutlery, a girl’s trousseau naturally included a set of fine crystal glasses. These were rarely used and are now often inherited. In most cases, these were standard crystal or lead crystal glasses of the time Unfortunately, only glasses that […]
Welcome to our latest blog post, in which we explore the stunning marriage of form and function in crystal glass design by OertelCrystal. Today we would like to highlight one shape in particular that not only serves as a vase, but can also be used as a tea light holder or candle holder. Let’s dive […]
OertelCrystalWe have some glass jugs and carafes with handles and spouts in our range. You may have noticed that the handles and spouts of the carafes and glass jugs are not always quite identical, because like almost all of our glasses, these glass jugs and glass carafes are mouth-blown, the top rim and the spout are […]
Glass lovers will occasionally stumble over the term “optical glass” or “optically blown glass.” Admittedly, the term is misleading and ambiguous, because optically pure glass, e.g. for lenses or eyeglass lenses, is also referred to as optically pure glass. In traditional glass factories, the term is known as a special type of finishing and refining […]
OertelCrystalHave you ever wondered with what the glasses are colored? Our glasses from the series Quadrone and Quadro are made of real overlay glass and mouth blown. The molten glass must be mixed with metal oxides for this purpose. Red glass is colored with gold, amber glass with silver, blue with cobalt, green with iron […]
Green is in, did you know that the green color of crystal glass is tinted with iron oxide? In former times the sand which was used for the glass melt very often contained iron oxide naturally. The glasses made from this sand had a green color and is nowadays called “Waldglass” meaning forest glass. We […]