Mention wine tasting to a San Francisco visitor and bucolic scenes of rolling vine-covered Napa Valley hills swirl like a ruby red in a crystal glass.

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The "ruby, " probably made of glass, had been added to the movement in 1704 and presented to Parliament by the guild to fraudulently invalidate an imminent patent on watch jeweling.

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Whimsical glass pipes from England and Italy are purely ornamental, but striking in their shades of vibrant cobalt blue and ruby red.

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