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CA BWGPL AR-2018-07-31-01
Title
Blue Glass Eye with Stem - Front View
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- 1940s (Creation)
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Hand-blown blue glass eye
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Hand blown glass eye. Donated by Debby French, whose father was a glass blower.
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Bill & Erica Marks Archive Room
AR 2.4
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"Glass for the white of the eye, or sclera, is made first in the form of a hollow tube about the size of a curtain rod. It's heated and drawn down to the thickness of a soda straw when the job of blowing the ball begins...a ball about the diameter of a 50-cent piece is blown on the end of the 'straw' and the bulbous end is sealed and slightly flattened...tube serves as a handle and as a blowpipe through which the blower's breath controls the shaping of the eye."
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Maclean's Magazine
Larry Gough
May 1st, 1944