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difficult to determine anything from the cutting is that the glass 

 made in one town was often cut in another ; for example large 

 quantities of Waterford glass were cut in Cork and Belfast, while 

 Limerick possessed glass cutters and engravers who cut and 

 decorated glass made probably in Cork and Waterford. The 

 following notices appear in the Belfast News-Letter, December 

 4th, 1786: "James Cleland has the greatest variety of the best 

 flint glass of almost every denomination, cut and engraved to the 

 newest patterns by workmen from England in his employ here." 

 October 31st, 1815 : "Jane Cleland has imported from Waterford 

 a quantity of plain flint glass which she has got cut to the newest 

 and richest patterns." In the Cork Ne2v Evening Post of January 

 17th, 1793, it is stated that " Marsden Haddock supplies Cork 

 and Waterford glass, he does the cutting himself, and also employs 

 a cutter from England." There were probably glass cutters in 

 various towns in Ireland who obtained the flint glass plain from 

 the factories,' and cut it to suit the requirements of their customers. 



On several occasions, contemporary with the manufacture, it 

 was stated that Waterford glass equalled, if not excelled, any of 

 the same kind made in Great Britain. 



The commonest pieces of the old cut glass to be found at the 

 present day are perhaps decanters, and in these the forms vary a 

 good deal. Some are tall, with slender necks and gradually 

 swelling bodies, something in the form of a champagne bottle, 

 others are squat, and others again are barrel-shaped with tapering 

 necks. Most of them had rings round the necks (except some of 

 the champagne bottle form), usually three, either quite plain, 

 feathered, triangular, cut, or a kind of triple ring. Cork and 

 Waterford certainly used the triple ring, almost always three being 

 on each decanter, while Belfast sometimes used two triangular rings- 



The lips of some of the Cork and Waterford decanters are 

 fairly large, while those of the Belfast specimens are often very 

 small. 



Some of the later decanters, about 1830 or 1840, had no 

 rings, the neck being cut in prisms, etc., and the sides were 

 perpendicular, 



