Steve/sewell
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Mike George earlyglass, Jeff Noordsy kungfufighter I value your opinions. I hope you enjoy this.The note appears to be from the late 1800s as the paper it is printed on is from that time period.Here is a glass hat made at the Stoddard New Hampshire Granite Glass Company glass works which were founded by John Whiton, Calvin Curtis and Gilman Scripture, whose venture began in the small Hamlet of Mill Village, Stoddard, at the end of 1845. These works were known as the Granite Glass Company. The factory produced many historical flasks .On quite a number of the flasks was the embossing of the Granite Glass Co and Stoddard, New Hampshire.Any glass attributed to these works is very desirable. The works were in business from the end of 1845 until 1862. They were a victim of financial hard times like so many of the early glass works in the United States.A great deal of The factories output consisted of plain medicine bottles. The renowned Dr. Townsend’s Sarsaparilla was made here. The famous Inkwells made for Farley’s general store in Marlow, New Hampshire were also made at these glass works
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These glass works also made quite a number of end of day glass whimsys.Matt Johnson was a very famous master glassman.He alone was responsible for a large number of the output of end of day items which consisted of hats, like this one, bowls, and the famous lily-pad pitchers. The color of the glass produced at this factory varied in from dark amber to a yellowy lighter color of amber and to various shades of olive. I picked up this hat from a collector here in Salem Southern New Jersey. She was a 98 year old woman whose family had an estate sale for her last month.She also had glass canes but I was attracted to the hat as I now have a sizeable collection of them from different glass works form Southern New Jersey , New England and New York State.This hat has a tag sized piece of paper 3 inches by two inches stating it was made at the (Granite Glass Co.New Hampshire Matt Johnson the year 1856.)The hat is 6 inches long and an average of 3 inches tall and 4 inches wide.The color is a pretty light honey amber.There is a rough pontil and plenty of real base wear.I tend to believe notes as really they are the only way to show provenance to any particular works.
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These glass works also made quite a number of end of day glass whimsys.Matt Johnson was a very famous master glassman.He alone was responsible for a large number of the output of end of day items which consisted of hats, like this one, bowls, and the famous lily-pad pitchers. The color of the glass produced at this factory varied in from dark amber to a yellowy lighter color of amber and to various shades of olive. I picked up this hat from a collector here in Salem Southern New Jersey. She was a 98 year old woman whose family had an estate sale for her last month.She also had glass canes but I was attracted to the hat as I now have a sizeable collection of them from different glass works form Southern New Jersey , New England and New York State.This hat has a tag sized piece of paper 3 inches by two inches stating it was made at the (Granite Glass Co.New Hampshire Matt Johnson the year 1856.)The hat is 6 inches long and an average of 3 inches tall and 4 inches wide.The color is a pretty light honey amber.There is a rough pontil and plenty of real base wear.I tend to believe notes as really they are the only way to show provenance to any particular works.
