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The Glass Industry in South Boston

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After painstaking research (with the assistance of the Big Dig), renowned appraiser Joan E. Kaiser has created probably the most detailed and accurate historical narrative of and guide to the glass factories of South Boston. The furnaces of South Boston far exceeded in number the well known and well-researched Sandwich glass factories. Due in part to the destruction of business records within the great Boston fire of 1872, then again, these factories were in large part forgotten or their history misunderstood, with their products conflated with the ones of other nineteenth-century New England glass manufacturers. Detailing the history and output of more than twenty-five flint glass, bottle glass, and window glass companies from 1811 to the end of the century, Kaiser provides collectors with probably the most complete pictorial guide to the glass of South Boston now to be had in the marketplace. With a foreword by J. Garrison Stradling, this lavishly illustrated volume is both an interesting history and an absolute necessity for museums, auction houses, and serious collectors of early American glassware.

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