Boyd Glass OLD Train Engine Locomotive TEST SLAG NOT SOLD Made in 1985 FUND

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We are using the EBay shipping calculator on our listings. We DO combine shipments and ONLY charge the exact shipping cost. If more shipping money is needed, we pay it. After a box is shipped we refund ALL excess shipping money. We do NOT charge for packing supplies, time to pack, time to go to the Post Office, money to cover our EBay and PayPal fees, or anything else. We do NOT charge a “per item fee” if you win more than one auction. All buyers should ask that the postage cost be printed on the shipping label so they know exactly how much the postage cost. PayPal charges a fee for each transaction so if you win more than one item please wait for an invoice from us with the combined shipping total. What is being offered now is the Boyd Glass Boyd Special Train Engine in the color Bermuda Slag but this one is different from all the other locomotives made in Bermuda Slag. This piece was slagged with blue glass instead of white and yellow glass. It is the only one made in this color combination. This was made at the time when Bernard Boyd Sr. loved to throw chunks of other colors of glass into the tank of molten glass while the workers were pressing pieces. These chunks of colored glass would melt into the molten glass, and as the gatherer twirled his punty rod into the tank to gather glass out to be pressed, the melting chunks of glass would get slagged into the molten glass on his punty rod. That glass would then be pressed into the mould and each slag piece would look a bit different. With the color Bermuda Slag, Bernard Sr. stood there all day doing the slagging however with this one piece he threw in some chunks of dark blue glass and that was what was slagged into the piece. I think it is beautiful and it even glows a bit by a blacklight. This is an older piece, Bermuda Slag was color number 2 in the series of colors run in this mould and was made on 2/7/1985. We are listing quite a bit of Boyd Glass this week and do combine shipments to save you shipping money so make sure to see it all! And the Boyd's never repeated a color in any mould so that makes Boyd Glass highly collectible. The Boyd Factory and showroom are now closed and the Boyd's have removed the Boyd Diamond B logo from all of their moulds. They also sold all of the moulds to another glass maker in the USA. Since they took the logo off of the moulds, and the Boyd Diamond B logo is trademarked, that means no more Boyd Glass items can ever be made which makes Boyd Glass even more highly collectible. This piece measures about 3 1/2 inches long and is marked with the Diamond B of Boyd Glass with a line under the Diamond B showing it was made in the 2nd five years of the Boyd operation. This beautiful piece of glass has no cracks or chips, the shiny places are reflected lighting.I worked at Boyd Crystal Art Glass in Cambridge for a number of years. I was employed there from about 1979 to 1987. For those of you that came to the Boyd Glass factory in that time period, I was the tall, thin, mustache faced, 20-something year old that worked in the factory. If you took the "tour", I was probably the employee working on the production line that explained the glass process to you while you watched us work. The time I spent at Boyd Glass is a memorable time in my life that I will not forget. I told my wife that the glass I purchased while employed at Boyd's and since then would be sold to help pay for our two daughters college educations and even though they have both graduated, we will be paying off the debt for some time to come and my wife is making sure that I keep to my plan. I will be putting some of the items I purchased up for sale on Ebay. I have a lot of older Boyd pieces, and some of the newer ones. I will be putting them on as I unpack them from the boxes I stored them in, or take them off the shelves in our home, find them at sales or get them at the Boyd factory. They will not be in any particular order. These will all be first quality Boyd Glass, with no cracks or chips, and will make a great addition to any collection. If any of ... read more

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