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Manufacturerpossibly Whitall Tatum Company (American, 1806 - 1938)

Place of Originpossibly Millville, New Jersey, United States

Date1890-1910

Dimensions2 3/8 × 3 1/2 in. (6.1 × 9 cm)

Mediumcolorless non-lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.492

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DescriptionSolid and tooled with a reddish tinge. Encloses a pattern called Devil's Fire, composed of ten stalagmite-like projections of chips of red, white, and blue glass punched up from a layer of chips in a vertical wavelike pattern by a crimp.

Published ReferencesPepper, Adeline, The Glass Gaffers of New Jersey and Their Creations from 1739 to the Present, New York, Scribner's, 1971, p. 260, pl. 16, bottom left and right (ink-bottle paperweight).

Wilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 562, no. 942.