Glass Works script money

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A very collectable go-with or complimentary item with any glass collection are Glass house scripts or monies.They were printed for use in the general store owned by the same person or people who owned the particular glass works mentioned on the bill.I have script monies three glass works to start with here.

The first up I have shown before here at the forum and it is a Dyottville Manual Labor Bank Note. This note is for 10 dollars.Dr Dyott's signature is hand signed and very legible on the note on the lower right hand side.A picture of Dyott in an ellipse shaped bust is on the right hand most side of the bill.The other picture is one of Ben Franklin and he is on the far left hand side of the bill.In the center of the note is a nice picture depicting what one of the furnaces surrounded by workers and glass blowers at Dyottville must have looked like in 1836. Dr. Dyott was the only glass maker to ever own his own bank.Although his bank was the ultimate and untimely end to his glass empire. Stephen Simpson signed all of Dyotts notes as it was he who was the contolling interset in the bank.H.Ridgeway was a grocer who purchased quite a bit of goods from Dr. Dyotts store and warehouse.At Dyott's trial for bank fraud it was Ridgeway and although he was owed quite a bit of money that deffended Dyott and helped him into getting a lesser of a sentence.

 

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Picture number 2 shows the original hand signed signature of T. W. Dyott.

 

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Picture number 3 shows the center of the note and is of the glassworks and the glass blowers at Dyottville in 1836.

 

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Picture number 4 shows the date of the note in close.Notice how the the line with 18 hundred in the year is printed in grey and the rest of the actual date Aug. 2nd and the number 36 is hand written in dark brown ink.Up to this note Dyott and Simpson had hand written on 5,286 prior notes.Thats a lot of hand written signing, which apparently is why everyones hand writing from the colonial time periods of our country was so neat and legible.

 

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A close up of Dr. Dyotts portrait on the note.

 

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Last on this Dyott note is Philadelphia's favorite son Benjamin Franklin in a bust picture on the lower left hand side.Dyott held Ben Franklin in high esteem through out his life.

 

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The glass works of Fislerville and the Moore Brothers.

The next series of notes are from the Fislerville glass works in 1863.By this time the Moore brothers had purchased the works from Jacob Fisler who had operated them the previous 14 years.The Moore brothers gained full ownership in 1862 and in 1863 issued their own script notes for use in their general store.Here are two examples of those notes which I purchased in a glass frame and was unable to remove them from it to photograph them.One of the notes is for 5 cents the other is for ten.Both are in mint condition.The Fislerville works produced the Jenny Lind G-1-107 Calabash flask so often debated here at the forum. Because of the Clevenger copy a lot of people will always assume that the original never existed.I own 11 of these as proof of their existence.The Moore brothers also made canning jars with their name on them which makes them more valuable then the more common Mason Jars.At the peak of their enterprise the Moore brothers plant occupied one third of what now is the Eastern most side of Clayton New jersey.The original town of Fislerville today is known as Clayton New Jersey and is also home to the Clevenger Glass works which although are no longer in operation the site of the factory and its buildind's still stand today.

 

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The second picture is the 5 cent script.I believe the center picture in the note is the state seal of New Jersey in which the horse is looking right when he should be facing left.

 

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The third picture is the 10 cent note which shows a shovel, rake,tiller and a sheaf of wheat honoring the contribution of the farming and agricultural from the area of Fislerville.

 

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The last set of notes are from a factory not discussed that often in bottle circles.The Salem Glass works were located in the town of Salem New Jersey the second oldest established town next to Burlington city.The works were in operation by 1862 and in 1870 script notes were being offered brining evidence to the fact the works were now much larger then when they came into existence.Shown here are two note's one for ten cents and the other for fifty.

The most famous bottle associated with these works were the Poland mineral water bottles or as they were referred to the Moses bottles.For the grand opening of the new Poland Spring House, in 1876, the Rickers introduced the unusual Moses Bottle, which continued to be the symbol of Poland Spring beverages well into the 1970's. 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.