McKee Glass Company, Depression Glass Companies
November 25, 2009 by Suzanne
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Mckee Glass Company is well-known in the glass making industry. Having originated in 1853 as McKee and Brothers Glass Works, McKee focused its efforts on quality crystal glassware. Unlike some operations at that juncture, McKee Glass Company could fill volume orders.
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Lancaster Glass, History Of The Lancaster Glass Company
October 9, 2009 by Suzanne
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The Lancaster Glass Company plant remains in operation today. While it is running under the name of Anchor Hocking, the plant is still in Lancaster Ohio where the company began. Anchor Hocking took over a major part of Lancaster Glass in the mid 1920s due to the depression (something that happened to many glass companies during the era).
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Fenton Glass Company
September 26, 2009 by Suzanne
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The Fenton Glass Company was founded in 1905 by two brothers and is still in operation today. They had one Depression Glass pattern and a number of popular pattersn in the 40s, 50s & 60s.
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Tiffin Glass, Tiffin Glass Company
September 25, 2009 by Suzanne
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The History of Tiffin Glass Company, including Tiffin Glassware Patterns, form its founding in 1888 until its closure in the 1980s.
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US Glass Company
September 25, 2009 by Suzanne
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The US Glass Company was founded in Tiffin Ohio in 1891 (this was the hand-worked glass site. The automated cite was in Gas City, In). 17 years later it had grown to a staggering size operating 11 plants with a working capital of over three million dollars.
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New Martinsville Glass Company
September 10, 2009 by Suzanne
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History of The New Martinsville Glass Company – In 1901 glass companies were popping up all over the United States. The New Martinsville Glass Manufacturing Company was among them, establishing itself in West Virginia.
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History of Depression Glass
September 2, 2009 by Suzanne
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The History of Depression Glass begins around the late 1920s and continues through the 1940s. The term Depression Glass is used to describe typically very colorful glassware that was produced during this period.
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Anchor Hocking Depression Glass
August 26, 2009 by Suzanne
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Most Anchor Hocking Depression Glass was made by the Hocking Company prior to their merger with Anchor in 1937.
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Jeannette Glass Company
August 26, 2009 by Suzanne
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Jeannette Glass Company, which is more often than not misspelled as Jeanette Glass Company, began in the late 1880s and created 14 Depression glass patterns that became collectible.
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Indiana Glass Company, Indiana Depression Glass
August 20, 2009 by Suzanne
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Indiana Glass Company was born at the turn of the century, as were many of the depression glass companies, The parent company had originally been Beatty-Brady Glass, which merged with National Glass Combine. When National Glass fell on hard times in 1907, Indiana Glass came into new hands – those of Frank Merry who would remain the key figure in creating beautiful blown and pressed glassware.
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Indiana Glass Patterns
Avocado (also known as Sweet Pear)
Horseshoe (also known as No. 612)
Indiana Custard (also known as Floral and Leaf Band)
Lorain (also known as Basket)
Old English (also known as Threading)
Pineapple and Floral (also known as Number 618)
Pyramid
Sandwich
Tea Room
Vernon (also known as No. 616)
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