Crockery & glass journal . IN NOVELTY. IN QUALITY. v0f/IJ egg Nineteen Hundred and Twelve GREETINGS! Charles L. Dwenger IMPORTER, French A. K., Barclay, Classic, Royal and othercelebrated shapes in Bavarian and Austrian WHITE AND DECORATED CHINA No. 41 Barclay Street, New York, . 90 Witb ii>c Old, Old Wish, fl merrp Cbristmas and » fiappp Kcu) year!Messrs, Robert frlimmon ft Q 96 CDurcb Street, tteu) york, extend to pou a ftcartp inuitaticn to call at tin abcix addressand look o»er tm attractive line of goods thep are offering Torpour inspection . . from . . fa^SE3fe^E3t3J^S3bJ^te3te^srNi^S
Crockery & glass journal . IN NOVELTY. IN QUALITY. v0f/IJ egg Nineteen Hundred and Twelve GREETINGS! Charles L. Dwenger IMPORTER, French A. K., Barclay, Classic, Royal and othercelebrated shapes in Bavarian and Austrian WHITE AND DECORATED CHINA No. 41 Barclay Street, New York, . 90 Witb ii>c Old, Old Wish, fl merrp Cbristmas and » fiappp Kcu) year!Messrs, Robert frlimmon ft Q 96 CDurcb Street, tteu) york, extend to pou a ftcartp inuitaticn to call at tin abcix addressand look o»er tm attractive line of goods thep are offering Torpour inspection . . from . . fa^SE3fe^E3t3J^S3bJ^te3te^srNi^S3fe5^E3^^E3^^^S A complete assortmentof the latest noveltiesas well as the shapesand patterns whichthrough their obviousmerits have becomestandards. n. 3- Wilkinsons, £ $ £ei$l).lipper fianlep potterp Co,% f>. Weatberbp $ Sons,R. Sudlou) % § Sons, majolica. ? ? . and * ? . Collingioood Bros., Cbina 9» Early Glassmakin^ in America,. HE honor of having made the firstglassware within the limits of thethirteen colonies belongs to Virginia,and to this day Virginia and WestVirginia have been prominent fac-tors in the production of glass andglassware, West Virginia latterly having become theleading state in the manufacture of window glass,this being due to extensive deposits of natural gas,which a few years ago was available at very lowprices, but as a result of a heavy drain upon the gaspockets of that state prices in some districts havebeen regularly advanced until cheap fuel is not thedrawing card it was six or eight years ago. TheLondon Co., which colonized Virginia, sent over withCaptain Newport on his second voyage eight Polesand Germans who were to make glass, and it is a re-markable fact that while Newports vessel reachedthe banks of the James river in 1608, the returncargo, which started for England in 1609, containedglass bottles and vessels made in the factory builtwithin a mile of Jamestown during the brief
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