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Collecting Old Glass, English and Irish

by J. H. Yoxall

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Roses, Oak-Leaves, Birds, and Butterflies on Glass

Eventually any glass with roses, rosebuds, and a bird or butterfly on it will rank as “Jacobite”; glasses with oak-leaves will also be thought symbolical of Boscobel. Other such emblems will be discovered, or are alleged; for instance, the aconite or monk’s-hood flower, considered as an aspiration for another General Monk, who might restore the Stuart line.

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