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The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass works ha... - 9/19/2010 1:29:18 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online Here is the listed as rare GXV-26 half pint light orange amber flask.What makes this bottle unique is that it is the first internal stopper designed for a bottle in the United States Patented on Jan 1st.1861.Samuel A. Whitney one of the two brothers who owned the glass works was credited with the design and patent of the stopper.This bottle is pretty rare and has a pint counterpart the GXV-27 flask.The pint flask has a double collared top but that is the only difference other then size.The internal screw threaded stopper reads PAT.JAN 1861.The base of the flask has the embossing WHITNEY GLASS WORKS.It is a nice orange amber in color with plenty of whittle from a cold mould. Colonel Thomas Heston along with  Thomas Carpenter were the second owners of the colonial glass works started by the Stanger Family in the year 1775.Bathsheba Heston daughter of Colonel Heston married Capt Ebenezer Whitney.The Captain died young leaving Bathsheba a widow at a young age.She had three sons,Samuel Whitney was the most hands on of the three brothers, Thomas,Samuel and Eben who was named for his father Ebenezer Whitney.Young Thomas Whitney worked at the the newly founded Harmony glass works as an apprentice and learned the trade of glass making.He learned very quickly and had a keen business sense.Thomas Stanger who along with John Rink  founded the Harmony Glass works in 1816 400 yards south of the old colonial works the original Stanger family had founded.It had a more modern furnace and was sound financially. Young Thomas Whitney worked his way up through the company and became the clerk of the company at just the age of 18 four years later at the age of twenty two in 1836 he purchased a one third interest in the Harmony glass works.Two years later in 1838 he owned the Glass works outright and renamed them them the Whitney Glass Works.Samuel A.Whitney went to work for his brother as a glass apprentice .His brother soon made him a partner in their 122 Walnut Street Philadelphia warehouse.This address is right next door to the famous Edmund G. Booz of the Booz Whiskey bottle at 120 Walnut Street. Samuel left Glassboro to manage the warehouse,he did such a fine job as manager of the warehouse that Thomas Whitney president of the Whitney Glass works named him the Plant manger of his glass works back in Glassboro.Two years later he was named a Partner in the glass works and now he like his brother Thomas had worked his way up from glass worker to glass owner.One of Samuel's crowing achievements was the design of this internal threaded stopper.He was a hands on owner who new the glass trade better then any of his pears in the day. This is a nice simple but rare flask that the Mckearins included in their flask charts because of it's uniqueness.One other note George  Mckearin mistakenly said the Whitney Glass works were started by Thomas Whitney and his two sons.This is incorrect as they were not only brothers but that the Whitney glass works only consisted of two of the brothers Thomas and Samuel as the youngest brother Eben started his own glass works 200 yards south of his brothers plant.Eben Whitney and his brother inlaw Woodward Warrick founded the Temperanceville Glassworks in 1842.It did well enough financially that he retired in just seven years.  Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen Post #: 1

RE: The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass work... - 9/19/2010 1:29:48 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online Number 2 Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 2

RE: The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass work... - 9/19/2010 1:30:19 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online Number 3 Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 3

RE: The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass work... - 9/19/2010 1:30:52 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online Number 4                   In this picture you can see the internal threading. Attachment (1) < Message edited by Steve/sewell -- 9/19/2010 1:31:54 PM > _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 4

RE: The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass work... - 9/19/2010 1:32:17 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online Number 5 Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 5

RE: The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass work... - 9/19/2010 1:32:51 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online Number 6   This picture shows the stopper upside down.There was a rubber like material described by Samuel Whitney in his Patent which can be found right here at the ( http://www.sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/whitney1861patent.pdf  ) located on or near the bottom tip. Attachment (1) < Message edited by Steve/sewell -- 9/19/2010 1:37:58 PM > _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 6

RE: The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass work... - 9/19/2010 1:38:23 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online Number 7  The top of the stopper embossed  PAT JAN 1861. Attachment (1) < Message edited by Steve/sewell -- 9/19/2010 1:39:48 PM > _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 7

RE: The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass work... - 9/19/2010 1:40:25 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online Number 8  Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 8

RE: The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass work... - 9/19/2010 1:41:02 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online Number 9  The base of the flask embossed WHITNEY GLASS WORKS. Attachment (1) < Message edited by Steve/sewell -- 9/19/2010 1:42:11 PM > _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 9

RE: The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass work... - 9/19/2010 1:42:51 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online Number 10 Attachment (1) < Message edited by Steve/sewell -- 9/19/2010 1:43:29 PM > _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 10

RE: The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass work... - 9/19/2010 1:44:01 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online Number 11 Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 11

RE: The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass work... - 9/19/2010 1:44:45 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online Number 12 Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 12

RE: The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass work... - 9/19/2010 1:45:26 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online Last one,It looks as though the bottle is on fire on the inside does'nt it.The color of this flask matches exactly to a lot of the Booz bottles in my collection  Attachment (1) < Message edited by Steve/sewell -- 9/19/2010 1:47:27 PM > _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 13

RE: The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass work... - 9/19/2010 2:01:07 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online Here is the link corrected One of the brackets got in the way making the original link useless. http://www.sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/whitney1861patent.pdf < Message edited by Steve/sewell -- 9/19/2010 2:03:09 PM > _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 14

RE: The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass work... - 9/19/2010 2:06:55 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online Woody, can you by editing this post the sixth page down get rid of the     )     character in the initial link http://www.sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/whitney1861patent.pdf  )  this  )  character prevents the link from working. I have corrected it in the last post number 13 but most people will try the top one first.Thanks Steve < Message edited by Steve/sewell -- 9/19/2010 2:07:44 PM > _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 15

RE: The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass work... - 9/19/2010 5:19:48 PM    lobeycat Posts: 6697 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline quote: Here is the listed as rare GXV-26 half pint light orange amber flask. Can't be all that rare if I have one in my collection. I also have the round quart version. Personally my favorite whiskeys. Attachment (1) _____________________________ http://youtu.be/YkdOqdpSc0A makes a man cry it does lol. (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 16

RE: The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass work... - 9/19/2010 5:24:43 PM    RedGinger Posts: 6727 Joined: 12/7/2007 Status: offline Is that similar to the internal gravitational stopper?  Neat bottle and stopper, Steve and Lobes. _____________________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyVTdY2BI3g (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 17

RE: The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass work... - 9/19/2010 9:55:17 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online Hey Rich we have another thing in common now besides bromo's,seriously nice bottle ,the Whitney glass works made some of the best looking amber bottles imaginable.This flask is rare though I am not kidding,you dont see to many of these half pint or pint versions ever.You have a quart version with an internal thread very nice.This bottle was one of the first I seeked out when I seriously started to collect again.When I was a kid I used to walk 6 miles to the grounds where the Whitney glass works were located.you could find so many bottles and so much glass digging an area the size of two football fields thats how large the works were.I gave away so many bottles I found to this nice old man that collected.He was handicapped and could not dig so it was the least I could do. Thanks for sharing your picture. _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 18

RE: The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass work... - 9/19/2010 11:29:14 PM    JOETHECROW Posts: 9807 Joined: 9/3/2005 From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy) Status: offline Interesting history and glass,...real nice flasks guys! Steve,...I like your story of walking to the glass works,...What type of bottles were you finding there at that time?I'll bet some great stuff !....Laur,...the gravitational stopper looks more like this pic I borrowed from "Mr. Bottles" website,...a glass rod type stopper that pulled up into a rubber grommet in the neck of the bottle, rather than screwing into the neck.... Attachment (1) _____________________________ Joe ``````````````````````````````````` In the woods we return to reason and faith. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTyuRd9zSg&feature=related (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 19

RE: The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass work... - 9/20/2010 10:33:26 AM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online   Joe we found a lot of Whiskey bottles 1850 to 1880,lots of medicine slick's,pieces of Booz bottles never whole,bitters,Mason jars like you would not believe.The glass works were enormous in size 700x700 feet when they built an A&P super market on the properly in 1972 the construction alone was yielding a good 100 bottles a day on weekends for a month straight.And yes they were all hand blown.In the town I grew up in there was a man Mr Gant who in 1970 was 75 years old.He grew up in Glassboro two blocks from the Whitney works.His father worked at the works from 1880 at the age of fifteen until it closed as a gaffers helper and remembered seeing all these great bottles we desire now.Mr. Gant owned an antique store in town and we used to take him our bottles we dug and he would pay us a somewhat fair market value in the day.As our friendship grew he took myself and a digging buddy of mine to the Whitney Glass works which were only 6 miles away.Mr.Gant remembered the glass works quite well, for as in his youth they were still producing glass and did not close until 1912.We would literally fill his back compartment of his station wagon to the gills on a Saturday and Sunday just walking around the site.We kept the ones we really liked and the rest went to Mr. Gant.We were the only non construction related people allowed on the site because of Mr. Gants political and business connections in Glassboro at the time.   < Message edited by Steve/sewell -- 9/20/2010 10:36:26 AM > _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to JOETHECROW) Post #: 20

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