Glass-Tipped Bullet

Object Name: 
Glass-Tipped Bullet

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Object Name: 
Glass-Tipped Bullet
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corning
Accession Number: 
70.4.176 A
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 9.2 cm; Base Diam: 1.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1942
Credit Line: 
Gift of Otto W. Hilbert
Primary Description: 
Colorless, slightly yellowish non-lead glass; molded borosilicate glass, tooled metal casing. Ovoid, pointed at one end with a white metal frame, sealed in a brass casing marked "A/4 2/F" on end.

More Info

Department: 
Science and Technology; Modern
Provenance: 
Hilbert, Otto, Source
Color: 
yellow
colorless
Technique: 
tooling
pressing
hot-working
Material: 
metal
borosilicate glass

Exhibitions (1)

Curiosities of Glassmaking
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2007-04-01 through 2007-10-21
West Bridge Show

Publications (4)

Din Lumea Larga (2007-07) illustrated, p. 35;
Curiously Interesting: The Corning Museum of Glass Presents All things Odd and Glass (2007-06) illustrated, p. 19; BIB# AI72435
Curiosities of Glassmaking (2007-04-02) illustrated, p. 8A;
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 349, #1367; BIB# 30457