One of my latest finds “6 Ruby Red brandy balloons” – gorgeous! sorry… NOW SOLD
Did you know?
Most of the ruby glass we see today has been produced during the later part of the nineteenth or early twentieth centuries.
Antonio Neri first alluded to the process of making richly coloured ruby glass in a book on glass manufacturing first published in 1612 though Johann Kunckel of Potsdam, Germany, is credited with having produced the earliest known examples in 1680. Kunckel’s process used a small amount of gold in the mix that resulted in a beautiful red colour. German glassmakers called this process Rubinglas.
