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Updated: April 30, 2025
Rich women carried such mirrors fastened to their girdles or sometimes instead had them fitted into small, shallow boxes of carved ivory; sometimes too the mirror was set in a case of gold, silver, enamel, or ebony with intricate decoration on the outside. That was the first of mirror-making." "How curious!" "Later the Venetians experimented and began backing pieces of glass with mercury or tin.
Then in 1600 the French stole from our people the secret of mirror-making and began turning out mirrors not only as good, but in some respects better than the Venetian ones." "Oh, Giusippe, how did they steal the secret?" Jean cried. "How dreadful!" "It was through the treachery of our own countrymen, señorita," Giusippe confessed. "Yes, sorry as I am to say so, it was our own fault.
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