Slag Glass soapdish

This weighty piece was bought in DC after attending the American Glass Collectors annual conference. I found a woman who had a number of slag glass pieces. Apparently during the war she had collected it during the war in England and then it someone got sold largely to this person.

Slag Glass

This glass is sometimes called End of Day however it was produced in Sowerby (north of England) for 20 years from roughly the 1870's to the early 1890's. The unattractive name makes it all the more appealing. It is dense and heavy and definitely one of my favorite.