Early Glassboro New Jersey Stanger 16 ribbed Vase.

This vase was in a Southern New Jersey collection for over 50 years previous to that it was located in South East Pennsylvania for 45 years.It then ended up in California for thirty years till recently and now it is back in New Jersey.Each owner stated that the piece came from Hestons glassworks in Glassboro.The Carpenter heston owned glass house the New Jersey Glass manufactory as it was called employed the previous owners the Stanger familys 5 brothers and their father.The work of the Stangers can be traced to their beginings at Wistarburgh when Richard Wistar had them brought to America as Expert Glassmen around 1760.They scattered and ended up in different glass houses once the effects of the American revolution was having such a detrement on on so many of the early glass works in our country.Solomon Stanger the first apparently founded the original glassworks in Glassboro in 1774.He used the two colored system on the glass whimseys he created quite often as it is mentioned frequently in books and journels from the time period.This vase is small in size standing 5 and a half inches tall 2 inches wide at the narrow points and 3 and a quarter where it bulbs out.It is a neat piece as it has an early green southern New Jersey color to most of it but the handles are aqua colored.I had always read about these type of bottles being made here in Southern New Jersey but had never seen one before in Person or on the web or in a book.The vase has a deep pontil cone shaped in the early fashion of the late 1700s.It is very light in weight and feels very fragile to hold.The sixteen ribs is a frequent numeric number employed by the early German gaffers.Why I dont know but there is quite a bit of glass fashioned using sixteen ribs.Here it is pictured with an Amelung vase.