@article {9775,
	title = {Geochemical Characterization of Alleged Mallorytown Glass (c. 1839{\textendash}40) in the Royal Ontario Museum and Its Distinction from Contemporary Upstate New York Glassware},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie},
	volume = {27},
	year = {2003},
	pages = {287-308},
	abstract = {<p>Chemical analysis shows that several of the alleged Mallorytown glass pitchers, bowls, and tumblers in the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have distinctive potassic soda-lime (K+Na+Ca-rich) compositions that resemble waste glass from the factory site, thereby supporting their attribution to this, the first-known Canadian glassworks. The composition of one object in particular, the Burnham\&$\#$39; bowl, so closely resembles this waste glass that it can now be considered to be an authenticated Mallorytown artifact. Although potassic soda-lime cullet and waste glass have also been recovered from the contemporary Redford and Redwood glassworks in upstate New York, their compositions tend to differ both from one another and from Mallorytown glass. Some of the cullet associated with these glassworks, however, consists of low-K soda-lime glass, and at Redwood, this was used to make window panes and, on an ad hoc basis, tableware. In addition, some shaped low-K glass objects were recovered from the Mallorytown site, suggesting that this type of glass might also have been used to make tableware such as one of the alleged Mallorytown pitchers in the ROM\&$\#$39;s collection. Based on its composition, however, it seems likely that this particular pitcher was made at Redwood. \&$\#$39;</p>},
	author = {J. Victor Owen}
}
