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1 To get to know the range of drinking glasses that were made in the 18th and 19th centuries, pay a visit combines two fine collections of antique glass, that of the former Broadfield House Glass Museum which closed in 2015, and the bequest of dealer Eila Grahame whose antique glass shop was in Church Street, Kensington (). At the in London you can browse the glasses collection held in the Ceramics Gallery at the very top of the museum (). – Frank Tibbenham's collection of 487 English drinking glasses from the 17th to the 19th centuries, is housed at Christchurch Mansion, Christchurch Park in Ipswich, Suffolk ().

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