| The purpose of this page is to make a reference to those
images used on my site which were scanned from the book: The Glass Gaffers
of New Jersey and their creations from 1789 to the present, Adeline Pepper,
Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1971, ISBN 684-10459-8 [LC#70-123831 748 P424g
Dallas Pub. Lib. Downtown] which are used on this site under
fair
use copyright law-link |
 Plate 7 Sapphire Blue,
distinctive Jersey Color, applied crimped foot, "matchless
design" opp.p85 |
 Fig. 51 Early Jersey
Candlestick double -baluster, with gadrooning. p.78 |
 Pl.14 Opp.p.180
Millville. Dragon fire (the color inside) mantle ornament. Spikes
of color coming to surface. Originally not sure how it was done,
after looking at spherical weights (Pl.16.opp.p260) and using my
memory, color bits on the bottom of the clear glass are pierced
with a long thin tool, carrying the color up into the clear in a
slender spike - with air in the spike originally. Clearly this
shape was extensively worked after the piercing.
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 Brown/purple goblet, double gather on the bottom of the bowl |
A mold blown bottle of an Indian to advertise the product. Fig.
27 "The Indian Queen" p.38 |
 A split mold
and the bottle made with it - note diagonal split (corner to
corner) Fig. 30 Booz Bottle and iron mold used at Whitney Glass
Works Glassboro, about 1860.
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 Stiegel-type flasks, inverted
diamond pattern Emil J. Larson 1930s. Amethyst netted bottle opp.
p 116 |
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| Whitney Bros. Glassworks, Glass House NJ, in the late 1870's
"dominated the down, with four 2-story factory buildings
each 100 by 80 feet and there were the usual appendages of
sawmill, box factory, packing house, warehouses, wheelwright and
blacksmith shops. ... Glass blown each month amounted to 525
tons, a job handeled by some 400 employees. A monthly supply of
100 tones of soda ash, 300 tons of sand, and 2,000 bushels of
oyster-shell lime were required to produce this glass." p.
37 Solomon H. Stanger, Glassmaker 1842-52, "The most steadily employed blower was George C. Hewitt, who over the course of 40 months recorded [in a ledger 1848-52] blew 22,680 bottles, for which he received $3,148.99. This was at a time when house rent was $6.25 for three months and firewood was $2.75 a cord." "For the blast of 1848-49 there were 133 different types and sizes of bottles, from vials to demijohns, from jelly to pickle jars, from oval inks to 'plain old.'" p.44 1843 "'Dyott's Mixen for Flint Glafs' "The union allowed workers to blow only 40 feet of single strength glass a week or 30 feet of double strength (it took 11 pains of single strength and 6 pains of double to equal an inch. ... Blowers here worked 7-8 hours then rested for 16 while the next batch was melted [until continuous furnaces were introduced.] Cylinders of glass were sometimes 70 inches long." GGNJ p. 101 "At a peak in its progress - 1883 - the Williamstown Glass Company did a quarter-million dollars worth of business annually. To achieve this the firm bought 5,000 tons of coal, 2,800 tons of sand, 1,000 tons of soda-ash, 4,000 tons of cordwood, 23,000 bushels of lime and 1,500,000 feet of box-boards a year." p. 151 [MF a US bushel is "2150.42 cubic inches or about 1.2445 cubic feet, and represents the volume of a cylindrical container 18.5 inches (47.0 cm) in diameter and 8 inches (20.3 cm) deep. The U. S. bushel holds about 35.239 07 liters." http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictB.html ] |
 Fig.192 Ralph
Barber's Crimp, modeled after rose shown on pottery in fig. 191
According to book, Barber also used the Rhulander Crimp below
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 Fig. 199, p.263 Crimp used by
John Rhulander, described as more formal.
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p.321 Map of NJ showing
various glass making towns discussed in the book. |
