Antique EAPG Glass Decanter – Ashburton Pattern – Circa 1860 – Boston & Sandwich
$ 31.68
Description
Antique EAPG Glass Decanter – Ashburton Pattern – Circa 1860 – Boston & Sandwich. The factory was one of the earliest to produce pressed glass. A wonderful clear flint glass decanter with bulls eye pattern & sunburst stopper made by Boston & Sandwich Glass Company (American, 1825–1888, Sandwich, Massachusetts). Excellent antique condition, no cracks. Minor wear consistent with age. A true collector’s piece of American EAPG history. About the maker - In 1825, Deming Jarves began the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company with its factory in Sandwich, Massachusetts, specialising in blown glassware, mold-blown glass, and machine-pressed glass. He built the company into what one writer calls "the most important manufacturer of pressed glass in 19th-century America";[8] he stayed with it until 1858, and it continued until 1888. The Boston and Sandwich Glass Company was incorporated in 1826 to hold the glass factory built a year earlier in Sandwich, Massachusetts, by Deming Jarves. The factory was closed in 1888 amid disputes with a newly formed glassmakers' labor union. The factory was one of the earliest to produce pressed glass
