Slag glass (also called marble glass or brown malachite) is an opaque pressed glass streaked with milky stripes, usually white or off-white. A variety of objects were made of slag glass, and multiple lamp companies used it as a shade material. It’s often reverse painted with a scene or stained with a color. Slag glass production boomed beginning in England in the late 1880s, a trend that hit America not long afterward.
There are a wide variety of collectible lamps, from big names like Tiffany and Handel to styles like slag glass, aladdin and Victorian. Values vary greatly, and reproductions abound, so be careful and do your homework.
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