Word: wistarburg
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...Eighteenth Century glass is just as interesting in its way and serves as a good contrast to the modern work. The old glass is mainly from the factories of Steigel and Wistarburg, two pioneers in the art of American glass blowing, who worked in the middle of the eighteenth century...
Steigel, a Bavarian, came here, set up a glass factory in Manheim, Pennsylvania, in 1765, and employed only glassblowers of German extraction. Caspar Wistar, from whom the Wistarburg glass takes it name, founded his factory in 1738 in Salem County, New Jersey...
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