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Libbey, Inc., (formerly Libbey Glass Company and New England Glass Company) is a glass production company headquartered in Toledo, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1818 in Cambridge, Massachusetts , as the New England Glass Company, before relocating to Ohio in 1888 and renaming to Libbey Glass Co .
This plant converted operations between 1972 and 1974 to Libbey Glass table-glassware manufacturing, which it continues today. In 1928, Libbey-Owens was the first company to produce automotive laminated safety glass and won a contract to supply the Ford Motor Company with windshields for the Model A .
It was established in 1878 as a department within a glassware producing factory, Glasfabriek Leerdam , itself founded in 1765. From 1938 until 2002 it was part of the Schiedam-based Vereenigde Glasfabrieken. In 2002, the factory became part of the American glass and tableware company Libbey Inc.
Tumblers are flat-bottomed drinking glasses. Collins glass, for a tall mixed drink. [5] Dizzy cocktail glass, a glass with a wide, shallow bowl, comparable to a normal cocktail glass but without the stem; Faceted glass or granyonyi stakan; Highball glass, for mixed drinks [6] Iced tea glass; Juice glass, for fruit juices and vegetable juices
Artemus Libbey (1823–1894), Maine Supreme Judicial Court justice; Dee Libbey (1919-1988), American composer; Edward Libbey (1854–1925), founder of Libbey Glass Company; Harry Libbey (1843–1913), U.S. Representative from Virginia; J. Aldrich Libbey (1864–1925), American vaudeville performer, actor, singer and songwriter
Edward Drummond Libbey (1854-1925) and his wife Florence Scott Libbey (1863-1938), ca. 1901. Edward Drummond Libbey (April 17, 1854 – November 13, 1925) is regarded as the father of the glass industry in Toledo, Ohio, where he opened the Libbey Glass Company (later Libbey, Inc.) in 1888.
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