Sandwich Glass: A Technical Book for Collectors

Chapter 11: BUNKER HILL GROUP

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A practical handbook for collectors that surveys the development, production, and varieties of early American pressed flint glass made in New England factories. It combines a history of local glassmakers and works with technical explanations of materials, molds, pressing methods, and the distinctions between early hand-blown and later pressed commercial wares. The author catalogs representative forms such as cup plates, salts, candlesticks, lamps, and flatware, describes colors, molds, and identifying marks, and cautions against later mass-produced imitations. Numbered illustrations and a collector’s data section support identification and recordkeeping for the serious student of early American glass.

BUNKER HILL GROUP

This series of four distinct designs was gotten out to commemorate the completion of the Bunker Hill monument. Three changes in the mold were made before the works were satisfied with the plate. The earliest is very rare.

12. Bunker Hill Monument on clear ground, three lines of inscription, outer line set off by rope in tassels, bricks in monument.

Corner stone laid by Lafayette, June 17, 1825

Bunker Hill battle fought June 17, 1776

From the Fair to the Brave

Finished by the Ladies 1841

13. Same as 12, with twelve stars in inner circle around monument.

14. Bunker Hill with rope border, two lines of inscription without bricks in monument, twelve stars in circle around monument.

15. Bunker Hill Monument, one row of inscription only, twelve stars in larger circle around monument with one star above with bricks, rope border.

Rare.