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Light sea-green flar¬ 
ing cake dish. 
Courtesy of J. C. 
Nippes 
Old South Jersey Glass 
(Continued from page 84) 
Besides the items noted in this ad¬ 
vertisement, there were dishes, bowls, 
pitchers, the various sorts of drinking 
vessels, pickle jars, snuff canisters, drug 
bottles, scent bottles, lamp glasses, mea¬ 
sures, vases, mustard pots, and other 
like objects of utility or domestic deco¬ 
ration. The inventory furnishes an in¬ 
teresting comment upon the social habits 
of the time. It is with the items noted 
in this latter list that our present con¬ 
cern lies. 
Pieces of the Wistar glass are still to 
be found in South Jersey, in all such 
haunts as the collector is wont to nose 
out and go poking into, in quest of 
treasures—old farmhouse kitchens and 
pantries, garrets that have long since 
been given over to 
cobwebs and mem¬ 
ories, and alluring an¬ 
tique shops in little 
towns, out of the 
beaten track. At sales 
of farmstead belong¬ 
ings, too, one may 
now and again pick 
up a rare bit of this 
old glass, which al¬ 
ways proves an ac¬ 
quisition worth stand¬ 
ing in mud and cold 
for half a day to 
secure. 
In city antique 
shops, too, one may 
often find a piece of 
Wistar glass, for the 
glass was widely dis¬ 
tributed by commer¬ 
cial means. There is 
also not a little of it to be found in the 
eastern and southern counties of Penn¬ 
sylvania, purchased originally from the 
Philadelphia markets. It even found its 
way to New England by sea, and was 
distributed by some of the shops in 
Boston. 
But what most concerns us is to know 
what manner of things these bowls, jars, 
pitchers, snuff canisters, vases, mustard 
pots and the like were; what were their 
characteristic shapes, their customary 
colors, and what the quality of the 
glass, so that we may, with some de¬ 
gree of surety, be able to recognize, if 
fortunate enough to chance upon them. 
And here let it be added that there is 
scarcely any object of the collector’s 
that offers more fruit¬ 
ful ground for dis¬ 
pute, for jealousy and 
bitterness of feeling, 
in the breast of its 
possessor, than old 
glass. 
The Wistar table 
and ornamental glass 
was both white and 
colored. Sometimes, 
and indeed more 
usually, a single col¬ 
or was used; some¬ 
times several colors 
were combined in the 
same piece. Then, 
again, a pitcher or a 
jar might consist 
partly of transparent 
flint and partly of 
colored glass. A rich 
( Cont. on page 88) 
Flower bowl of light, 
yellowish, bottle - green 
glass. Courtesy of J. C. 
Nippes 
Dark green flask and small sea-green cream 
pitcher. Made in Alloway, N. J. Courtesy 
of J. C. Nippes, Esq. 
Preserve jar from the Allo¬ 
way Works. Metropolitan 
Yellowish green pitcher. 
Courtesy of Penna. Museum 
