Glass Beads and Taws
Glass beads have been made ever since the making of glass was known, in Egypt, Europe, and here. The general tests of age given in this book may be applied to them. Glass taws or marbles made for boys’ games, or for a game called “solitaire” which used to be fashionable—a kind of “patience” game with glass taws—used to show the characteristics of air-spiral or cotton-white or coloured spiral stems.