Vintage Antique American Brilliant Cut Glass

Vintage Antique American Brilliant Cut Glass

First, there is ABP cut glass, i.e., cut glass produced during the last quarter of the 19th Century and the first quarter of the 20th Century.  Various authors, such as Pearson and Boggess, describe this period as extending from 1880-1917 and 1876-1916, respectively.  Suffice it to say that the ABP spanned about 40 years to the end of World War I, at which point it began its decline into the 1920s and 1930s. 
During the ABP, “brilliant and rich cut glass” was made in America (the U.S. and Canada) and in Europe (principally France and Belgium).  The latter was intended both for worldwide export and for local consumption.  Other countries produced cut glass during the ABP, e.g., England, Germany, Ireland, Finland, Russia and Sweden.  However, the characteristics of that cut glass are generally sufficiently different from ABP cut glass so as not to be confused with it.
Thus we have the following sub-categories of ABP cut glass:
1.  Glass cut in America on blanks made in America.  From the