December 4, 2008
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.
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