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Tumbler

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

Date1825-1840

DimensionsH: 3 3/16 in. (8.1 cm); Rim Diam: 3 in. (7.6 cm); Base Diam: 2 1/2 in. (6.3 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1971.88

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.I-6) of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Ringed Type III). Rim sheared, tooled, and folded inward. Rough pontil mark. Capacity: about one-half pint.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, Helen, "Blown Three-Mold Fragments Excavated at Sandwich," Antiques, vol. 35, May 1939, pp. 240-243 (Reprint 1, pp. 168-171), pp. 240-243, fig. 4.

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.I-6, p. 247, pl. 84; p. 261, pl. 100, no. 23, p. 305.

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. 234, no. 281.