Talk:Silvered glass

Terms

So what is a pontil scar? The article is brief, not beautifully written and there are terms used that we're assumed to know. Guess what... I'm not a glass blower and I don't know those terms. I bet there are a lot of people who aren't glass blowers.

Someone who knows this stuff should try to help this page. Gingermint (talk) 01:07, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Photos

This article could be a lot bigger and it would be great to see various pictures of the different kinds of mercury glass. Gingermint (talk) 01:07, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

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Requested move 23 December 2025

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jeffrey34555 (talk) 21:07, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

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Mercury glass → Silvered glass – My limited research gives me to understand that "silvered glass" is the most common term for this stuff today. Often it's found as "silvered (mercury) glass." Some sources say that "mercury glass" per se is just the stuff with actual mercury (tin-mercury amalgam) involved, which would make the silver-nitrate stuff off-topic for this article, and I don't think we want that. I think we want an article on all silvered (mercury) glass, with subsections on the amalgam and silver-nitrate subtypes if needed. (FYI, I got onto this topic while looking for information on "mercury mirrors," which as I understand it now refers specifically those mirrors made with actual tin-mercury backings.) --Quuxplusone (talk) 00:23, 23 December 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 20:32, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

• Support Ngrams backs up your assertion, and being less specific also helps. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 02:07, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

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