Steve/sewell
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I recently got unbelievably lucky on eBay as an American made Pitkin style pitcher was available last week.
I thought for sure it would sell into the thousands and I had put a threshold of two hundred dollars on my own bid .
Pitkin style flasks are somewhat rare on eBay but when was the last time you saw a Pitkin styled pitcher.
I also believe it was locally made here in Southern New Jersey.
As an avid collector of glass house whimseys and end of day products more and more as my collection grows you
can see in the glass the end of day frit is loaded with imperfections and impurities.This is the tell tale sign that a piece
is original and not a Clevenger, Liberty Village or or type of copy manufacture.
The pitcher is very old as it is blown in the half post method.It stands 8 inches tall and 6 inches round.
The color is a pretty clear aqua green through out with olive colored striations in the glass.The handle is
neat in that it is more blue aqua in color then the rest of the bottle suggesting to me that it was made with
a different batch of glass.One third of the way down from the top the ring of the second gather of glass is
easily seen.There is plenty of tiny dirt type granules in the glass along with the usual potstones.
A strong candidate as for a place of manufacture would be Clementon New Jerseys Gloucester Glass works.
Plenty of shards of Pitkin style glass in colors matching this pitcher were unearthed at the site of the glass works by
the famous (Olympic track star)Richmond Morcom of Maine in the 1960s.Mr. Morcom has visited more early
glass works probably then anyone in the glass collecting field.
The best part of the whole acquisition for myself is that I only paid 7 dollars for the pitcher.I honestly thought there
was no way in heck that I would be the high bidder on this one.This was my once in a lifetime purchase and feel very
fortunate to have found it. Here is a series of pictures.
I thought for sure it would sell into the thousands and I had put a threshold of two hundred dollars on my own bid .
Pitkin style flasks are somewhat rare on eBay but when was the last time you saw a Pitkin styled pitcher.
I also believe it was locally made here in Southern New Jersey.
As an avid collector of glass house whimseys and end of day products more and more as my collection grows you
can see in the glass the end of day frit is loaded with imperfections and impurities.This is the tell tale sign that a piece
is original and not a Clevenger, Liberty Village or or type of copy manufacture.
The pitcher is very old as it is blown in the half post method.It stands 8 inches tall and 6 inches round.
The color is a pretty clear aqua green through out with olive colored striations in the glass.The handle is
neat in that it is more blue aqua in color then the rest of the bottle suggesting to me that it was made with
a different batch of glass.One third of the way down from the top the ring of the second gather of glass is
easily seen.There is plenty of tiny dirt type granules in the glass along with the usual potstones.
A strong candidate as for a place of manufacture would be Clementon New Jerseys Gloucester Glass works.
Plenty of shards of Pitkin style glass in colors matching this pitcher were unearthed at the site of the glass works by
the famous (Olympic track star)Richmond Morcom of Maine in the 1960s.Mr. Morcom has visited more early
glass works probably then anyone in the glass collecting field.
The best part of the whole acquisition for myself is that I only paid 7 dollars for the pitcher.I honestly thought there
was no way in heck that I would be the high bidder on this one.This was my once in a lifetime purchase and feel very
fortunate to have found it. Here is a series of pictures.
