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Thomas Sweeney was born in Armagh, Ireland to Thomas Sweeney and Sarah Ann Campbell.His family emigrated to the United States when he was a child. He and his brothers Michael, Campbell and Robert Henry Sweeney lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and by 1830 settled near the important Ohio River port of Wheeling in what was then Ohio County, Virginia.
Many of the pressed pieces appear to be cut glass on casual inspection, due to the high quality of the glass and the crispness of the molding. The majority of the pieces are impressed with the company logo, a raised capital letter "H" inscribed in a diamond of approximately 1 ⁄ 4 inch (6.4 mm) in length. This mark is found on the bottom of ...
American stained glass artists and manufacturers (2 C, 74 P) C. Corning Inc. (1 C, 32 P) T. ... Warsaw Cut Glass Company; Westmoreland Glass Company; Wheaton Industries;
J.S. O’Connor Rich Cut Glass has been described as one of the most extensive glass cutting factories in America with O’Connor recalled as one of the finest glass cutters in the nation. The factory was said to be one of a kind in America, run by waterpower and lit by electricity generated by its own electrical plant.
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One of the few successful American glass companies was the New England Glass Company, which was incorporated in 1818 and led by Deming Jarves—the "father of the American glass industry." [ 10 ] Using assistance from the Harvard University library and a British engineer named James B. Barnes , Jarves developed a way to produce red lead from ...
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Bowl of a wine glass in typical cut glass style Cut glass chandelier in Edinburgh. Cut glass or cut-glass is a technique and a style of decorating glass. For some time the style has often been produced by other techniques such as the use of moulding, but the original technique of cutting glass on an abrasive wheel is still used in luxury products.