From Charles Sweigart
All engraved glass is cut, but all cut glass is not engraved!

Scott Hansen of Briarcliff Manor, NY
With some apologies for paraphrasing, I fear we have entered the territory of Potter Stewart – “I know it when I see it but I can’t define it.”

I have heard the distinction Jane provided before but if you use it to distinguish between a piece of engraved glass and a piece of cut glass you would only be able to tell the difference between the two by seeing the cutting and/or engraving being done since after the fact you wouldn’t know how the piece was handled during the process. Now I know that Jane will be able to point to a piece of glass and identify it as cut or engraved so there must be something more to it.

Dick suggests that it is a continuum and at some point along that continuum engraving becomes cutting or is it that cutting becomes engraving? If so, what defines the point where one becomes the other?

John might limit cutting to American Brilliant glass and everything else becomes engraving? Cutting seems broader than that to me.

Perhaps this is all metaphysical, akin to the number of angels dancing on the head of a pin.