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House & Garden 
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Pressed glass from the works of the New England Glass Co. at 
Sandwich, Mass., 1824-54, and some paper-weights made in the 
different glass works of America 
Early American Glass 
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never surrenders”. Nearly a hundred 
different varieties of historical bottles 
may be collected which record events 
of history and give medallion portraits 
of prominent men who have served 
their country with honor and distinc¬ 
tion. 
The pressed glass manufactured by 
the New England Glass Company at 
Boston at the Sandwich glass works 
from 1824 to 1855, will of itself make 
a most charming collection, which as 
the years pass on will become very valu¬ 
able and be of great historical interest. 
A collection of this Sandwich glass 
should include cake and preserve dishes, 
historical cup plates, all of heavy pressed 
glass and lace-like effect, which graced, 
in grandmother’s time, the white linen 
on which they were placed. 
The Sandwich factory also made 
opalescent salt cellars, curtain holders 
and furniture knobs, besides table glass 
of pressed crystal such as compotes, 
celery holders (blue, amethyst, canary 
and white), goblets and other drinking 
glasses, candlesticks and glass lamps of 
different colors and great beauty of de¬ 
sign. Examples of these are shown in 
the illustrations. 
The historical cup plates have in their 
centers medallion scenes of log cabins, 
beehives, monuments, eagles, steamboats 
and prominent men, which portray 
American historical, social or political 
events during the period between 1840 
and 1850. 
A separate collection of candlesticks 
of American glass, including the early 
whale oil, fluid or camphene oil lamps, 
examples of which are shown in the 
illustrations, will also make a collection 
of great interest and charm. No other 
nation of the world outside of Italy can 
compete with America for beauty and 
variety of design in its glass candle¬ 
sticks. Personally, I like best the dol¬ 
phin glass candlesticks of pure white 
jade color, with their turquoise blue 
tops, made at Sandwich, Mass, (where 
most of the candlesticks one collects 
were made), at the time when the sail¬ 
ors on the New England whaling and 
clipper ships decorated their clothing 
chests with dolphins to insure fair 
weather, white-caps and blue skies. 
Another interesting by-path to fol¬ 
low in the collecting of glass is mille- 
flora paperweights, which, beside Ameri¬ 
can manufactured ones, may include 
those made in France, England and 
Italy. Anyone who has in the home a 
collection of these beautiful artistic lit¬ 
tle ornaments has a crystallized flower 
garden of wondrous beauty and delight. 
The American ones, especially*show de¬ 
signs of wild flowers and old-fashioned 
garden flowers such as pansies, migno¬ 
nette, forget-me-nots, bachelor’s but¬ 
tons, etc. 
Collecting Steigel, Wistarberg and 
Millville glass has become very difficult. 
Few specimens appear on the open mar- 
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Druggists’ jars for maple sugar cakes 
and a pressed glass bowl, below a 
portrait 
