Word: stiegel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opened a factory in 1739 in Salem County, N. J. His specialty was two-color work, generally of little depth, but he succeeded in producing a quantity of whiskey bottles now avidly sought by collectors as South Jersey glass. Most famed U. S. glassmaker was Henry William ("Baron") Stiegel who established a plant in Mannheim, Pa. in 1765, lived in a castle, had guns fired whenever he entered or left town, and died in bankruptcy in 1785. Sandwich glass, familiar in blue dolphin candlesticks, setting hens, and patterned tumblers, was made in Sandwich, Mass. for 60 years during the 19th...
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