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Item Specifics
Type :
Lamp
Brand & Maker:
Tiffin
Pattern :
Owl
Main Color:
Brown
Glassware Category :
Art Glass
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Beautiful Authentic Antique Tiffin
Owl Lamp. Enameled Brown with Shiny Finish.
A highly collectible, beautiful and useful home decor
piece. The glass base, cord, plug, and socket are
in like new condition.
Age:
1926-1935
Size:
4" x 8-1/2"
Condition: Excelllent.
The finish on one eye is slightly rubbed.
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Reference: 9.10 #E-1 "Tiffin Glass 1914-1940", Page 150
by Leslie Pina & Jerry Gallagher, Schiffer Books 1996 and
Tiffin Glassmasters Book II, Page 72 by Fred Bickenheuser,
Glassmaster Publications 1981
About The Tiffin Glass Company
In July 1888, it was announced that the A. J. Beatty &
Sons glass factory of Steubenville, Ohio, would be relocating to
Tiffin, Ohio. A. J. Beatty had been negotiating with various
communities for more than a year to establish a site for the new
factory. The city of Tiffin offered five years of natural gas,
$35,000 in cash, and land valued at $15,000. Construction of a
three-furnace glass factory at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Vine
Street began in September 1888, and operations commenced on August
15, 1889. Early production capacity was reported to be 500,000
pressed tumblers per week.
During the early years of the 1900s, A paper label
identified the glass items with the letters USG intertwined within
a gold-colored shield. Commercial ware continued to be marketed
under the United States Glass Company name until September 1927.
After that time, household goods were identified by a gold paper
label with TIFFIN superimposed on a large "T" within a
shield.
After production had ceased in 1980, the molds were
dispersed and Russell Voglesong of Summit Art Glass Company of
Ravenna, Ohio, acquired the Tiffin shield trademark mold. The
Tiffin Glass Collectors Club subsequently purchased this mold in
1991.
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