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Hat Salt

ManufacturerProbably Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Date1825-1840

DimensionsRim Diam: 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm); Base Diam: 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm); H: 2 3/8 in. (6.0 cm)

MediumSapphire-blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1971.15

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.III-25) of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Ringed Type III). Hat brim with inward-folded rim sheared and tooled to shape. Rough, solid pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, pl. 30.

References to glass classifications established in McKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948.

McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978; etc., G.III-25, p. 256, pl. 94; p. 313; p. 280; pl. 121, no. 6.

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. 243, no. 307.