We're a little over two weeks away from saying au revoir to 2019, and I hope you're using this time to stock up on things you'll need, like party hats and champagne flutes.
Speaking of champagne flutes, how about these?
I bought these, box and all, from eBay this past June. The box is about all I have to say for them, because they arrived in a million pieces. At least the seller refunded me as soon as I showed him the proof.
Right. Griping out of the way; let's get on with the history lesson.
The parent company, Arc International, began producing handmade glassware and crystal in 1825 as Verrerie Cristallerie d'Arques. For simplicity's sake, I shall call it Arc from here on.
Arc grew and innovated in the 1930s when it imported American glass-blowing machines and other equipment, then unheard of in a Europe still rebuilding after World War I. This ultimately led to the founding of Cristal d'Arques in 1968, the first company to automate crystal stemware.
Arc is still producing glassware and fine crystal to this day, and their latest products employ cutting-edge science to provide consumers with ever finer and more durable goods.
...Which leads us back to these fine flutes. They were much larger and more finely-made than the other 2000 flutes I've featured. For one thing, the zeroes are hollow rather than filled-in, and they look rather more like they were carved from ice than turned from lead-crystal; for another, these things--or at least what I could hold on to--were heavy. If treated well, they could conceivably last for decades.
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