New England Glass Company

The New England Glass Company (1818–1878), originally founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts and subsequently relocated to Toledo, Ohio, was established by Amos Binney, Edmund Munroe, Daniel Hastings, and Deming Jarves on February 16, 1818. It was renamed the Libbey Glass Company in 1892, then was bought by Owens-Illinois Glass Company, which spun it off as an independent company in 1993. The company produced both blown and pressed glass objects in a variety of colors, which had engraved, cut, etched, and gilded decorations. The firm was one of the first glass companies to use a steam engine to operate its cutting machines, and it built the only oven in the country that could manufacture red lead, a key ingredient in the making of flint glass. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the New England Glass Company was considered one of the leading glasshouses in the United States, best known for its cut and engraved glass. Read more from Wikipedia →