Glass-Tipped Bullet

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Object Name:

Glass-Tipped Bullet

Department

Modern

Maker(s)

Corning Inc., Factory

Place Made:

United States, NY, Corning

Date:

1942

Color

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yellow

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colorless

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Technique

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pressing

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pressed glass

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off-hand process

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Material

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metal

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borosilicate glass

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Dimensions:

Overall H: 9.2 cm; Base Diam: 1.9 cm

Accession Number:

70.4.176 A

Credit Line:

Gift of Otto W. Hilbert

Location:

Not on Display

Description

Colorless, slightly yellowish non-lead glass; molded borosilicate glass, tooled metal casing. Ovoid, pointed at one end with a white metal frame, sealed in a brass casing marked "A/4 2/F" on end.

Provenance

Hilbert, Otto, Source

Exhibitions (1)
Publications (3)

Exhibitions

Curiosities of Glassmaking

Venue(s)

Corning Museum of Glass 2007-04-01 through 2007-10-21

West Bridge Show; traveling to The Gallery at Steuben in 2008 (cancelled 6-2008)

Publications

Curiously Interesting: The Corning Museum of Glass Presents All things Odd and Glass (2007-06) illustrated, p. 19;

Curiosities of Glassmaking (2007-04-02) illustrated, p. 8A;

American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 349, #1367; BIB# 30457

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