If you come across a “Fiat” glass priced at a five-pound note, or less, you may be sure of one of two things: either the owner does not know the value of the piece or it is an imitation. Baluster stems are not often to be met with, but they may well be worth anything from £1 to 30s. Of course, in considering this question of price one must not forget that often a fancy price is willingly paid in order to complete a set, or for some other reason. Irish finger glasses with double lip are, roughly, worth from 5s. to 7s. 6d., and sometimes higher prices are given for sets of a dozen, or even half a dozen. Opaque glass is rare, and glasses with opaque twists are worth about 15s. apiece. Masonic, thistle, and boot glasses run about three, two, and one guinea respectively. Salt-cellars, with their Irish flat cutting, cost anything from a guinea each, and vinegar and oil bottles about 30s. I have purposely refrained from mentioning any large or important pieces; there are many such perfectly well known to the expert. It is, of course, quite impossible to fix a price for these. As an Appendix to this book I have drawn up a list of prices fetched by important pieces at recent sales. A large Waterford bowl will fetch twenty-five to thirty guineas, and if its genuineness is incontestable and its artistic merit high, it may well bring twice that figure. Personally, I consider that the high-water mark has been reached in the price of ordinary pieces of old glass. There is certainly a great demand for it at the moment; but such crazes are rarely lasting, and the time may come when antique glass, which has largely dispossessed antique silver, will itself fall into disfavour before the onset of some newer fancy. A CATALOGUE Showing the latest prices of important pieces of glass sold by auction at recent sales of well-known collections. An ancient Roman Drinking Glass, with indented sides, and two early Venetian Glasses, of green colours, decorated with trailed lines.....£1 18 0 A Wine Bottle, of early seventeenth century, with seal of a monarch’s head, highly iridescent; and two others, one inscribed and dated _Henry Galshell, 1700_.....£2 12 0 A Wine Bottle, inscribed _T. Bellamy_, 1773, and another, dated 1772.....£2 6 0 A Bristol blue glass Goblet, with inscription in gold:-- “Accept this trifle from a friend, Whose love for you can never end,” a blue Cream Jug, an opalescent Cup, and an oval cup.....£3 5 0 A pair of cut-glass Sugar Castors, and one other.....£2 16 0 A pair of tall Beer Glasses, decorated with applied bands, 10½ in. (_c._ 1735), and one with engraved body, 17½ in......£2 12 0 A large Goblet, with globular body, and another, smaller, with inscription KING & CONSTITUTION.....£2 0 0 A Goblet, with bell-shaped body, decorated with moulded ornament, on round foot and baluster stem, the centre knop containing a 3d. piece of Charles II., 9½ in......£10 0 0