surfaceone
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The only mention of S.G.W. for Salem is the Mason jar monogram so I doubt it came from there. I could be wrong.
Hey Fred,
Here's a bit more on Salem Glass Works:
"The Salem Glass Works is now located on Griffith Street along the water front. It started in 1862, when Henry Hall, Joseph Pancoast, and John V. Craven formed a partnership and built a single furnace on Third Street in the City of Salem. They made mold blown bottles, including squat mineral waters and porters for John P. Robinson, and John C. Brown of Salem, blue porter squats and squat ales for John Ryan of Savannah Ga., squat porters and mineral waters for Wm. Morton of Trenton, and squat porters for Twitchel of Phila. This information comes from a company mould book for the years 1865, 1866, and 1867. They made the Banner, Worcester, Wm. Pogue, W.W. Lyman, and Willoughby fruit jars and the U.H. Dudley Fruit bottle. They also made Attwoods bitters, Carter’s inks, Lea & Perkins Worcestershire Sauce, cone inks, Sachem Barrel bitters, Jenny Linds, Poland Springs “Moses” bottle, Paine’s Celery Compound, Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, Turlington Balsam, Drakes Plantation Bitters to name a few from the mould book.
Some of the bottles were standard non-embossed type, made in factory molds, others were standard slug-plate type, with the slug-plate embossed for the customer, while others were made using the customers mold. The bottle business flourished, allowing a second furnace to be built on Fourth Street, doubling the company capacity. And finally in 1876, a third furnace was built between Griffith Street and the water front, the present location. The ownership began to change in 1878, when Mr. Hall withdrew, and then in 1879, Mr. Pancoast died. Thomas J. Craven joined his brother John, to form “The Craven Bros.” Glass Co. in 1881. They built a fourth furnace at the Griffith Street site, and increased employment to 350 workers.
In 1895, the partnership was dissolved, when a stock company was formed, which took the name “Salem Glass Works”. Thomas J. Craven was president, with Louis Pancoast, John V. Craven, and D. Stewart Craven in the management. The products were still various bottles and jars like the Pettit and Mason fruit jars, amber Lorillard’s tobacco jars, blood purifier bottles, Poland Springs Water bottles, pint pickle jars for Philadelphia Pickling Co., and Mallard’s barrel shape mustards. They made the Safety Mason, Sanety Wide Mouth Mason, Eureka (script), and the Sterling (script) fruit jars." From.
As you can see they made a variety of bottles & jars, as did Southern Glass Works, I'm sure.
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PS. Yikes, that photo blew up! Sorry about the size, but too cool to remove...
< Message edited by surfaceone -- 8/4/2010 2:00:02 PM >
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