Posts Tagged ‘colonists’

Antique American Glass The Native Americans had not made glass before the Spanish conquered Mexico and established a glassworks there. The ingredients of sand, lime, and soda were present in abundance. The native Americans did make arrow heads and amulets of quartz and obsidian. The first colonists discovered that the native people liked to use coloured glass beads for their wampum or necklaces. Wampum were made of beads, stones, and shells which were also used as a form of currency. The first efforts to make glass in the colonies was therefore directed at making coloured glass beads. The first group of professional glassblowers consisted of eight Dutch and Polish settlers who were invited by the businessman John Smith to carry on their trade in Jamestown, Virginia ...

American Antiques: American Antiques Styles and Periods American antiques Those who decide to collect American antiques need to consider a number of points. Will they only collect pieces from the United States or does the interest include the rest of North America, including native American, Mexican, and Spanish objects. This chapter deals with antiques that originated in the United States and have a western cultural background. These are objects from what is now the USA belonging to immigrants and their descendants of between 1620 and 1900. The objects must have been made after Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. Canadian and imported antiques are not included and the same is true of pieces of native American origin. The majority of America styles bear a ...