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sheets in a pack, as established by the manufacturers in their price lists. The selling- 

 price of sheets is not determined by their size, a factor taken into consideration 

 only when the price of the packets which form a box is fixed. For a clearer idea 

 of the prices of glass wares the following figures are given, showing the average 

 market values of a weight unit of such goods without delivery. 



Crystal of good quality, in plain, cut, and pressed urticles, costs in Kussian 

 factories, 9 roubles per poud. For wholesale buyers a discount of 25 per cent is made 

 per barrel. A barrel of crystal costs from 65 to 70 roubles, and contains seven and 

 one-half pouds. Plain services, or figured, of good clear glass of medium quality is 

 sold on the market by the manufacturer at a profit ranging from 2 to 5 roubles per 

 poud. 



There are in Russia, although in very small quantities, services made of plain 

 crystal without any designs ; they are an imitation of the service glasses of celebrated 

 foreign makes, and are called Buccarat, in honour of the renowned French crystal. 

 They are very much like the French leaden crystal as to purity of finishing and 

 form. However, they are made of more practical potash crystal, and only occasionally 

 do they have some lead in their composition. The prices of such services, manufactured 

 only in recent years by one of the factories of Maltsev, average for small and larger 

 objects, 25 to 26 roubles per poud. Thus, for example, large tumblers, which are 

 the cheapest representations of this class of goods, cost 19 to 20 roubles per poud; 

 small tumblers, 24 roubles; and small wine glasses, 31 to 36 roubles per poud. Such 

 services are sold largely in the capitals. 



The average price of window glass of high quality, white Bohemian of prime 

 sort, a box of which costs 45 to 50 roubles, averages from 3 to 4 roubles per poud ; 

 grayish window glass, fifty per cent less. Ordinary sorts of bottles of pure manufacture 

 cost from 1 to 1.50 roubles per poud. Better sorts of wine bottles cost from 2 to 

 2.50 roubles per poud ; such goods are sold by the hundred, or by the thousand pieces 

 per poud. In Asiatic Eussia, where the manufacture of bottles is quite unequal to the 

 demand, the commonest makes were sold recently at 15 roubles per hundred. Such 

 a price is very high, as in European Eussia the same sorts can be bought at 3 to 4 

 roubles per hundred. 



The trade in looking-glasses in Eussia is much embarassed by the import of 

 foreign mirrors. These goods, made in Eussian factories, are generally of small 

 dimensions, often about one square metre, as the demands for such glasses on the 

 home markets are 5 or 6 times those for large sizes, as explained by the fact that 

 the principal markets try always to supply the wants of the middle classes. 



Eussian factories, however, produce conformably to their technical means large 

 sizes also, the largest being 6 square metres, as well as the small and medium size 

 mirrors. Plate glass used for windows and doors, as also very thick glass for roofs, 

 is to some extent made at Eussian woiks, such as Amelung and Smolianinov, and in 

 part, imported. Large looking-glasses are also brought into St. Petersburg, very often 

 in the unpolished state, and are then finished off in the local factories. 



Plate glass is sold at 2 to 3 kopecks per square vershock, or 10 to 15 roubles 

 per square metre. The trade in small glasses, owing to the low prices of those im- 

 ported, brings but little profit to the producers. Large looking-glasses, however, are 

 more profitable, as they sell at 6 to 7 kopecks per square vershock, or 30 to 35 



