Historical American Glass - historical-american-glass.com/

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This site was designed to preserve,educate and provide enjoyment for historians,the novice glass collector ,and the advanced glass collector in their pursuit of information about the early glass that was manufactured here on our shores. The material printed on this site was obtained through research on the web, Old and new books,Newspapers that I own and the glass pieces themselves. Historical American Glass shows you where ,when and sometimes why the factory's produced the articles of glass they did. The glass industry in the early colonies was a very important venture that provided goods,employment,and needed other industries related to the glass industry for the entire villages that grew up around the glass houses. 1915 is the modern cutoff date that I use for it is by that time most of the old time glass factorys were now using Michael Owens new Glass Blowing machine. The website begins with the first glass works in the colony's which was constructed at Jamestown. I hope you enjoy your stay here as I enjoy knowing I may have helped you with a question about a piece of glass you may have just acquired. On this page you will find the links to the other web pages on this site. Most are in a picture click-able menu which will open up a new window.Now go explore!!The beginning of glass production ,Jamestown Virginia 1608 to 1609 and the second attempt at the same site1621 to 1624. Below are artifacts that were discovered at the Factory site.Artifacts found at the site of the Jamestown glasshouse which was in operation as early as 1608: a small melting pot, part of a working hole, fragment from large melting pot, cullet (broken or refuse glass shown in lower left corner), and green glass fragments and drippings (lower center and lower right).The next attempt would take place by the Dutch at New Amsterdam (Present day New York City.New Amsterdam was the first successful area in North America to manufacture glass continuously in the 17th century.Evert Duycking, who came to America in 1638,by 1640 he had constructed his first glass house and manufactured mainly window glass. He soon realized the need for utilitarian glass but there were no master gaffers in the colony of New Amsterdam at the time. Soon Master Gaffers were being lured from Germany to come to New Amsterdam to blow glass. Evert was a leading citizen in his day. Evert Duycking was a general artisan and was succeeded in 1674 by one of his assistants, Jacob Melyer, whose family was said to have made glass "unto the third and fourth generation." Cornelis Dirkson, and members of the Jansen family, and other Dutch artisans also practised the art of glass-blowing in New York during the late 1600s.At the same time Johannes Smedes who had been here quite a while when, in 1654, he was allotted an area of land on which he erected a glassworks. The bordering path soon became known as Glass-makers Street,because Smedes had a neighbor Jacob Melyer, who as mentioned above was said to have made glass "unto the third and fourth generation." . After a few years in America, Johannes simplified his name, becoming Jan Smedes. He retired from the glass business in the same year that Peter Stuyvesant "retired" from the Governorship in 1670. His glass works made "bulls-eyes, for the windows and doors of the early homes, and plain utilitarian bottles and all the hollow ware for the citizenry of New Amsterdam.

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