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Object Name6 Bottles

Makerpossibly Fostoria Glass Company

Made FromGlass

Date1957-1958

Place Madepossibly United States, VA, Jamestown; possibly United States, WV, Moundsville

TechniqueFree blown, mold blown

SizeSee Individual Records

Accession Number58.4.10

Credit LineGift of Jamestown Glass House Foundation

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Not On View

Physical Description6 Bottles. Transparent light olive-green or yellowish-green very bubbly glass; free blown and mold-blown; (A) straight sided body, rounded shoulder, cylindrical neck, flaring rim; flat base with "JAMESTOWN VIRGINIA 1608 1957"; (B) spherical, cylindrical neck, flat rim; flat base with: "JAMESTOWN VA 1608 1957."; (C) straight sides, rounded shoulder, cylindrical neck, flaring rim; flat base with: "GLASS ESTABD. JAMESTOWN VA 1603 OLDEST AMERICAN INDUSTRY"; (D) spherical, short neck, flaring rim; on flat base: "GLASS OLDEST AMERICAN INDUSTRY 1608-1958"; (E) spherical, cylindrical neck, flattened rim; on flat base: "JAMESTOWN VA. 1608-1958"; (F) rectangular (square) with sunken sides, rounded shoulder, short cylindrical neck with flattened rim; on flat base (faint): "JAMESTOWN GLASS 1608 1958".
Provenance

Source Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation - 1958-04-30