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Here is the listed as rare GXV-26 half pint light orange amber flask.What makes this bottle unique is that it is the first internal stopper designed for a bottle in the United States Patented on Jan 1st.1861.Samuel A. Whitney one of the two brothers who owned the glass works was credited with the design and patent of the stopper.This bottle is pretty rare and has a pint counterpart the GXV-27 flask.The pint flask has a double collared top but that is the only difference other then size.The internal screw threaded stopper reads PAT.JAN 1861.The base of the flask has the embossing WHITNEY GLASS WORKS.It is a nice orange amber in color with plenty of whittle from a cold mould.
Colonel Thomas Heston along with Thomas Carpenter were the second owners of the colonial glass works started by the Stanger Family in the year 1775.Bathsheba Heston daughter of Colonel Heston married Capt Ebenezer Whitney.The Captain died young leaving Bathsheba a widow at a young age.She had three sons,Samuel Whitney was the most hands on of the three brothers, Thomas,Samuel and Eben who was named for his father Ebenezer Whitney.Young Thomas Whitney worked at the the newly founded Harmony glass works as an apprentice and learned the trade of glass making.He learned very quickly and had a keen business sense.Thomas Stanger who along with John Rink founded the Harmony Glass works in 1816 400 yards south of the old colonial works the original Stanger family had founded.It had a more modern furnace and was sound financially.
Young Thomas Whitney worked his way up through the company and became the clerk of the company at just the age of 18 four years later at the age of twenty two in 1836 he purchased a one third interest in the Harmony glass works.Two years later in 1838 he owned the Glass works outright and renamed them them the Whitney Glass Works.Samuel A.Whitney went to work for his brother as a glass apprentice .His brother soon made him a partner in their 122 Walnut Street Philadelphia warehouse.This address is right next door to the famous Edmund G. Booz of the Booz Whiskey bottle at 120 Walnut Street.
Samuel left Glassboro to manage the warehouse,he did such a fine job as manager of the warehouse that Thomas Whitney president of the Whitney Glass works named him the Plant manger of his glass works back in Glassboro.Two years later he was named a Partner in the glass works and now he like his brother Thomas had worked his way up from glass worker to glass owner.One of Samuel's crowing achievements was the design of this internal threaded stopper.He was a hands on owner who new the glass trade better then any of his pears in the day.
This is a nice simple but rare flask that the Mckearins included in their flask charts because of it's uniqueness.One other note George Mckearin mistakenly said the Whitney Glass works were started by Thomas Whitney and his two sons.This is incorrect as they were not only brothers but that the Whitney glass works only consisted of two of the brothers Thomas and Samuel as the youngest brother Eben started his own glass works 200 yards south of his brothers plant.Eben Whitney and his brother inlaw Woodward Warrick founded the Temperanceville Glassworks in 1842.It did well enough financially that he retired in just seven years.
Colonel Thomas Heston along with Thomas Carpenter were the second owners of the colonial glass works started by the Stanger Family in the year 1775.Bathsheba Heston daughter of Colonel Heston married Capt Ebenezer Whitney.The Captain died young leaving Bathsheba a widow at a young age.She had three sons,Samuel Whitney was the most hands on of the three brothers, Thomas,Samuel and Eben who was named for his father Ebenezer Whitney.Young Thomas Whitney worked at the the newly founded Harmony glass works as an apprentice and learned the trade of glass making.He learned very quickly and had a keen business sense.Thomas Stanger who along with John Rink founded the Harmony Glass works in 1816 400 yards south of the old colonial works the original Stanger family had founded.It had a more modern furnace and was sound financially.
Young Thomas Whitney worked his way up through the company and became the clerk of the company at just the age of 18 four years later at the age of twenty two in 1836 he purchased a one third interest in the Harmony glass works.Two years later in 1838 he owned the Glass works outright and renamed them them the Whitney Glass Works.Samuel A.Whitney went to work for his brother as a glass apprentice .His brother soon made him a partner in their 122 Walnut Street Philadelphia warehouse.This address is right next door to the famous Edmund G. Booz of the Booz Whiskey bottle at 120 Walnut Street.
Samuel left Glassboro to manage the warehouse,he did such a fine job as manager of the warehouse that Thomas Whitney president of the Whitney Glass works named him the Plant manger of his glass works back in Glassboro.Two years later he was named a Partner in the glass works and now he like his brother Thomas had worked his way up from glass worker to glass owner.One of Samuel's crowing achievements was the design of this internal threaded stopper.He was a hands on owner who new the glass trade better then any of his pears in the day.
This is a nice simple but rare flask that the Mckearins included in their flask charts because of it's uniqueness.One other note George Mckearin mistakenly said the Whitney Glass works were started by Thomas Whitney and his two sons.This is incorrect as they were not only brothers but that the Whitney glass works only consisted of two of the brothers Thomas and Samuel as the youngest brother Eben started his own glass works 200 yards south of his brothers plant.Eben Whitney and his brother inlaw Woodward Warrick founded the Temperanceville Glassworks in 1842.It did well enough financially that he retired in just seven years.
