Lake Dunmore Salisbury Vermont Glass Factory items.

[Steve/sewell]

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[Steve/sewell]

3.The company clerk Milo Cook.

 

[Steve/sewell]

4.June 1st 1814

 

[Steve/sewell]

5.The signature of the President of the company Samuel Swift

 

[Steve/sewell]

Can anyone here at this forum decipher this name circled in red. Bill Powers wants to know he has compiled a nice historical list.
Check out his web site.

http://www.lakedunmorevt.com/history/default.htm

 

[cookie]

What a great post! I 'm hoping to head up there in the next few months to see the lake. Your pictures and details about the factory are fabulous.

 

[JustGlass]

Great finds from that old glass factory. I have seen a couple of them hats in aqua at antique shops here in Vermont that said they where from the Lake Dunmore Glass factory. I don't know much about them or how to tell where they were made so I have always passed them up. Lake Dumore in Salisbury is a treasure in it's self. I spent many days of my life swimming , camping, sunday cookouts, boating, and fishing there. Beautiful lake that I would love to own a camp or house on when I retire.

 

[saratogadriver]

Local VT lore growing up was always that they produced virtually nothing but aqua glass there, so I'm interested to hear that, possibly, they made products with colored glass. At one time, virtually every aqua pontil bottle in VT for sale was alleged to be Dunmore glass.

Are there verifiable, documented, Dunmore pieces?

Jim G

 

[earlyglass]

Steve,

I really hate to rain on your parade, but the color is olive amber. I'm sorry, but I don't see cobalt or purple, etc.

Further, Lake Dunsmore produced window glass (cylinder method). It was aqua and light blue green color. This is all well documented with local museums and historians. Besides window glass, some off-hand (aqua) pieces have been documented.

Mike

 

[kungfufighter]

ORIGINAL: saratogadriver

Local VT lore growing up was always that they produced virtually nothing but aqua glass there, so I'm interested to hear that, possibly, they made products with colored glass. At one time, virtually every aqua pontil bottle in VT for sale was alleged to be Dunmore glass.

Are there verifiable, documented, Dunmore pieces?

Jim G

Wait, you mean that every aqua bottle found in Vermont was not made at one of the nearby glass factories? Heresy[]

There is a black glass magnum at the Sheldon Museum that has a long history of having been made in East Middlebury (the first of the so-called Lake Dunmore Glass Houses) but I am of the VERY, VERY strong belief that it is in fact an English made bottle of an earlier period. (Hence my skepticism of many so-called "Granny notes.")

Documented pieces include a number of aqua laboratory type vessels made for Middlebury College, several distinctively formed compotes with 19 ribs (one can be found in the Bennington Museum), several pattern molded pans with the same 19 ribs (I own two), a wonderful footed bowl in the Sheldon Museum and lots of greenish tinged window panes in early local homes. I also know of a complete window glass cylinder that was recovered from the bottom of the Lake many years ago. There are bunches of other objects that very well could have been and/or likely were made locally but I'd hesitate to make any definitive claims.

Much of the confusion comes from longstanding mis-attributions (e.g. I highly doubt that the paneled jelly jars were blown here) and the publication of several books filled with supposition and hope rather than solid evidence.

Colored glass in every shade of blue, green, amber, etc. can be found in abundance in and around the site but it is the very strong sense of we locals who care about such things that this was simply cullet and not actually glass house output. Any object I know of with strong local attribution was blown in shades of aquamarine.

I'll try to post some photos while watching it rain this week