These Two Oil lamps are old 3 piece blown molded, with their original burners and wicks and hand blown and tooled chimneys 1815-1835. These Two beautiful lamps lit the way for a couple of generations in our family. Value over $100.00 each.
(See Ancestral Home Grand Sprute)
The bottle to the right is a remake by Clevenger Brothers glass works, hand mold blown Limited Edition Series. They made these bottles in limited numbers to keep the South Jersey Glass making tradition alive. Value $25.00
The 3 piece blown mold method was developed and used from 1815 through 1835. The blown-three-mold method involved blowing a hot gather of glass from the blow pipe into a hinged mold consisting of two to five pieces, although three were most commonly used. The reason the blown three mold method disappeared after only twenty years was the invention of the glass pressing machine. As early as 1829 glass makers began pressing glass, this early method left uneven marks and also uneven amounts of glass in different areas of the mold,which effected the thickness in different areas of the piece being produced. It wasn't till about 1840 that this problem was corrected by the invention of a plunger guide. This guide solved the problem of the unevenness and plunger marks and this method gained popularity among glass makers. At the same time the price of glass fell since the ornate molds were no longer needed and large quantities in more simple designs were being produced and bought by the American consumer. Full tableware sets could now be produced in simpler designs, and by the 1850's pattern glass gained popularity among the middle class for it brought a sense of elegance to the dinner table.
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From the swedesboro N.J. area.
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The first recorded glass works was founded at Jamestown Virginia, in 1608. Although it is thought that the Spaniards may have introduced glass making to the west coast much earlier. For over a hundred years glass making went on haphazardly, turning out domestic utensils of no great character or importance. The first glass house, to establish a reputation and about which any detail is known was the Wistarberg glass works, located in Salem County, New Jersey, started in 1739 by a button maker named Wistar. Latter on in 1763, William Henry Stiegel experimented with glass and started the Stiegel glass works in Manheim Pennsylvania.
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There are 4 of these blown molded
? goblets hand worked. They have twisted stem mold marks that don't line up with thier bases. Roughly applied upper body, noticeable heighth differences. Early 1800's from South Jersey. Handed down from generation to generation. Known gifted as wedding present in 1894.. |
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Glassboro New Jersey. In 1775 several glass blowers of the Stanger family left the Wistar works in Allowaystown (Alloway, New Jersey) to start a glass works in the woods of Gloucester County. They picked this area because of the abundance of trees for fuel, and the close proximity to the Philadelphia market and shipping location. The seven Stanger brothers were successful but in 1781 they were forced to close due to the devaluation of Revolutionary war money. In 1786, Colonels Thomas Heston and Thomas Carpenter purchased the factory. In later years it would be the Olive glass works, the Harmony glass works, the Temperanceville glass works, the Whitney Brothers glass works, the Owens bottle Company and Owens Illinois Glass Company. Historians agree that the Stangers founded Glassboro's glass industry, and that Heston and Carpenter saved the industry in the post-Revolutionary War depression. In the 19th century the Whitneys and the Warricks brought the glass industry in Glassboro to a height never realised since.
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