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Hatchet

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Place of OriginUnited States, Ohio, Toledo

Date1893

DimensionsL: 20.6 cm (8 1/8 in.); Max W: 10.4 cm (4 3/32 in.)

MediumAmber non-lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of James M. Falvey, Jr.

Object number

1959.124

Not on View

DescriptionPressed in a two-piece longitudinal female mold by a male plunger. The moldmarks are at front and back center of handle, blade, etc. The top of the handle above the hatchet head rough ground.

Label TextLibbey Glass built a temporary factory on the grounds of the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the World’s Fair, to demonstrate their glassmaking abilities to the throngs of visitors. This souvenir hatchet was likely made at that factory.Published ReferencesHomer Eaton Keyes, "Presidential Portraits in Late Glass," Antiques, vol. 34, November 1938, p. 240-241, repr. fig. 2 (Reprint 2, p. 169-170).

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 228, no. 3.

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. 514, no. 864.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 68, no. 220.