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I have finally completed in my glass and bottle collection all of the historical flasks known to have been made at the Isabella Glass works because of the embosing on them.In the Mckearins book American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry they list the three flasks as follows.GXIII-55 GXIII-56 and the GXIII-57.Two of them are listed as rare and I have only seen them listed
once at an auction last year.The GI-99 S. Huffsey Jenny Lind calabash flask was also made at these glass works.Here is a little history about the Isabella Glass Works.
New Brooklyn, as a small village, is relatively unknown today except by glass collectors. It was originally known as Old Brooklyn and has disappeared from maps. All that remains is New Brooklyn Road (Route 536) from Williamstown to the Camden County border.
In 1831 John Marshall, aka Squire Marshall, started building a glass works in what was then called Seven Causeways. This later was known as Brooklyn and even later on as Old Brooklyn. Frederick Stanger had married the Squire's daughter, Elizabeth Marshall. Frederick Stanger helped his father-in-law by supervising the building of the glassworks furnace, since Marshall was not a glassman. However, Frederick Stanger died on May 14, 1831 at age 45.
Thomas W. Stanger, cousin of Frederick Stanger, joined the company and helped Squire Marshall to complete the glass works. The first blast of the Brooklyn Glass Works was in 1832.
Three years later Thomas W. Stanger married his cousin's widow, Elizabeth Marshall Stanger, who was 15 years older. The company was known as Marshall and Stanger until 1839 when Marshall withdrew at age 71.
By 1850 Thomas Stanger began building a new glass works containing 7 pots about a mile from the Brooklyn Glass Works. Thomas and Elizabeth Marshall Stanger were the parents of three daughters - Isabella, Frances and Elizabeth who died as a baby. Thomas Stanger named the glass works "Isabella Glass Works" after his daughter Isabella. Later it was called the New Brooklyn Glass Works to distinguish it from the original factory called "Old Brooklyn Glass Works." Glassblowing commenced at the New Brooklyn Glass Works on September 9, 1850.
On a mid-1850s map of the area Thomas W. Stanger's glassworks is shown located along a canal possibly dug by Stanger. A sawmill owned by George Marshall in 1828 is also shown along a pond created on Four Mile Branch. A company store opened in 1850.
In 1856 the Old Brooklyn Glass Works burned down. It was repaired and continued in use. Over the years due to depressions and labor strife the Isabella Glass Works was rented and sold at auction. Thomas W. Stanger remained as superintendent and had a continuing interest in the glass works.
Oddly an 1876 ledger noted "the Japanese govrnment sent one of their representatives to this factory to observe glassmaking there...he stayed about a year, observing, making sketches and drawings of the works and when he left he induced several of the blowers to accompany him back to Japan."
Thomas W. Stanger died on February 23, 1892 and was buried in Glassboro. Isabella Stanger, for whom the glassworks was named, remained on the property. She lived in a small farmhouse and owned the land that once was the site of the glasshouse bearing her name. In 1933 Isabella Stanger was 94 years old and remembered the history of the glass works.She knew Samuel Huffsey and said that the S. Huffsey Jenny Lind bottle was blown here in 1851 she would have been twelve years old at the time
Presently the site of the Isabella Glass Works would have been located at the intersection of the Atlantic City Expressway and New Brooklyn Road in Monroe Township.It was located about 2000 feet north of the New Brooklyn settlement.
Here are some pictures of the flasks.
once at an auction last year.The GI-99 S. Huffsey Jenny Lind calabash flask was also made at these glass works.Here is a little history about the Isabella Glass Works.
New Brooklyn, as a small village, is relatively unknown today except by glass collectors. It was originally known as Old Brooklyn and has disappeared from maps. All that remains is New Brooklyn Road (Route 536) from Williamstown to the Camden County border.
In 1831 John Marshall, aka Squire Marshall, started building a glass works in what was then called Seven Causeways. This later was known as Brooklyn and even later on as Old Brooklyn. Frederick Stanger had married the Squire's daughter, Elizabeth Marshall. Frederick Stanger helped his father-in-law by supervising the building of the glassworks furnace, since Marshall was not a glassman. However, Frederick Stanger died on May 14, 1831 at age 45.
Thomas W. Stanger, cousin of Frederick Stanger, joined the company and helped Squire Marshall to complete the glass works. The first blast of the Brooklyn Glass Works was in 1832.
Three years later Thomas W. Stanger married his cousin's widow, Elizabeth Marshall Stanger, who was 15 years older. The company was known as Marshall and Stanger until 1839 when Marshall withdrew at age 71.
By 1850 Thomas Stanger began building a new glass works containing 7 pots about a mile from the Brooklyn Glass Works. Thomas and Elizabeth Marshall Stanger were the parents of three daughters - Isabella, Frances and Elizabeth who died as a baby. Thomas Stanger named the glass works "Isabella Glass Works" after his daughter Isabella. Later it was called the New Brooklyn Glass Works to distinguish it from the original factory called "Old Brooklyn Glass Works." Glassblowing commenced at the New Brooklyn Glass Works on September 9, 1850.
On a mid-1850s map of the area Thomas W. Stanger's glassworks is shown located along a canal possibly dug by Stanger. A sawmill owned by George Marshall in 1828 is also shown along a pond created on Four Mile Branch. A company store opened in 1850.
In 1856 the Old Brooklyn Glass Works burned down. It was repaired and continued in use. Over the years due to depressions and labor strife the Isabella Glass Works was rented and sold at auction. Thomas W. Stanger remained as superintendent and had a continuing interest in the glass works.
Oddly an 1876 ledger noted "the Japanese govrnment sent one of their representatives to this factory to observe glassmaking there...he stayed about a year, observing, making sketches and drawings of the works and when he left he induced several of the blowers to accompany him back to Japan."
Thomas W. Stanger died on February 23, 1892 and was buried in Glassboro. Isabella Stanger, for whom the glassworks was named, remained on the property. She lived in a small farmhouse and owned the land that once was the site of the glasshouse bearing her name. In 1933 Isabella Stanger was 94 years old and remembered the history of the glass works.She knew Samuel Huffsey and said that the S. Huffsey Jenny Lind bottle was blown here in 1851 she would have been twelve years old at the time
Presently the site of the Isabella Glass Works would have been located at the intersection of the Atlantic City Expressway and New Brooklyn Road in Monroe Township.It was located about 2000 feet north of the New Brooklyn settlement.
Here are some pictures of the flasks.
