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Waterford Crystal is an Irish manufacturer of crystal glassware, especially cut glass products. It is named after the city of Waterford in Ireland.In January 2009, the main Waterford Crystal manufacturing base on the edge of Waterford was closed due to the insolvency of Waterford Wedgwood plc, and in June 2010, Waterford Crystal relocated almost back to the roots of glass-making in the city ...
Austrian opaline glass bowl, 1914. Opaline glass is a style of antique glassware that was produced in Europe, particularly 19th-century France.It was originally made by adding materials such as bone ash to lead-crystal, creating a semi-opaque glass with reddish opalescence.
The Waterford Borough Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Waterford, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. [ 1 ]
Waterford International Festival of Light Opera [31] is an annual event that has been held in the Theatre Royal since 1959. Also known as the Waterford International Festival of Music, it takes place in November. [32] Waterford hosted the Tall Ships Festival in 2005 and 2011. [33] The 2005 festival attracted in the region of 450,000 people to ...
It is situated in a central retail area off the Hartford Turnpike (Route 85), across from a smaller, open-air shopping center, Waterford Commons. The mall covers a gross leaseable area of 782,786 sq ft (72,723 m 2 ), making it Connecticut's ninth largest mall, boasting 110 shops. [ 2 ]
Serving plate with flow blue transfer printing, c. 1890 Two versions of the "Britannia" lavatory bowl, 1890s - 1905. Johnson Brothers was a British tableware manufacturer and exporter that was noted for its early introduction of "semi-porcelain" tableware.
In 2007 Waterford Wedgwood bought the Edinburgh Crystal company. Edinburgh Crystal continued as a brand name only with all manufacturing moved to Europe. Then, in January 2009, Waterford Wedgwood went into administration and were bought by KPS Capital Partners. At this time the brand was discontinued. [9] [10]
Discussions then followed with Waterford Glass and a £1 million bid was agreed. In 1970 John Aynsley and Sons was taken over by Waterford and renamed Aynsley China Ltd. In 1987 Waterford sold the company in order to focus the group's fine china sales on the worldwide Wedgwood brand. [5]