My Historic Flasks collection is being cataloged

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[Steve/sewell]

The Olive Glass Works Glassboro New Jersey made GI-97 Benjamin Franklin / Benjamin Franklin Quart sized in a deep aqua. I have two of these examples and they are crude and quite old 1815 to 1820. These were made in South Jersey while Dyott was the agent for these works. When Dyott left the Olive works so did the rest of the factory workers who went to work for a competitor next door in Glassboro 800 yards south called the Harmony Glass works which in a few short years would become the famous Whitney Glass works. One side of this flask Benjamin Franklin's Face is the same as a half on the the prior mold I showed you the GI-96. The Mc'kearins though Dyott had the mold made first. The opposite is true as Dyott although connected to the Olive glass works did not make the mold first he acquired it when the Glassboro factory closed. [attachment=P1140005 (Large).JPG] [attachment=P1140006 (Large).JPG] [attachment=P1140007 (Large).JPG]

 

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[RED Matthews]

Thank you Steve. I need to know how to keep your contacts to information like this in my computer. I have saved a lot of your works and pictures of old glass. You are really the best bottle collector I have ever met, and I will never forget your visit with us in New York. It is nearly time to go up there for the summer. I am going to take three special glass items with us this time, to see if Corning Glass can give me any help about how they were made.One is a rose bowl that has a tool formed top edge ruffled rim. It had to be empontilled and re- heated around the top edge and then ruffled with a pinch tool that created four ruffles that measure about an inch and a half long and a half inch deep x a quart inch wide. The glass is basically black, but the skill is exceptionally interesting. RED Matthews