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Stangl Pottery was a company in Flemington (and later Trenton), New Jersey, that manufactured a line of dinnerware and other items. The company was originally founded as Samuel Hill Pottery in 1814, until 1860 when it became Fulper Pottery. The name changed to Stangl Pottery in 1955.
The Mercer Pottery Company is a defunct American pottery company. The backstamp on many of its pottery pieces indicates it was founded in 1865 in Trenton, New Jersey. It was then purchased in 1875 by James Moses. [1] The company ran successfully until the 1930s. It claimed to have made the first semi-porcelain ware in the United States. [2]
Some pieces are unmarked in all periods, and there appears to be some overlapping of marks; indeed some pieces have two different marks. There are also anchor marks in blue and brown, [12] and an extremely rare "crown and trident" mark in underglaze blue, known on only about 20 pieces, and thought to date from around 1749. A chipped beaker with ...
The company relocated in about 1902 to Trenton, New Jersey. [7] Modern Plumbing - J. L. Mott Iron Works. In 1917, artist Marcel Duchamp may have selected a urinal from the J.L. Mott showroom in Manhattan and presented it as a work of art called Fountain at the Society of Independent Artists exhibition. [8]
8th Street is a street in the New York City borough of Manhattan that runs from Sixth Avenue to Third Avenue and also from Avenue B to Avenue D; its addresses switch from West to East as it crosses Fifth Avenue. Between Third Avenue and Avenue A it is named St. Mark's Place, after the nearby St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery on 10th Street at ...
From 1937 to 1983, the company operated the oldest glass-manufacturing facility in the United States, established in 1863, in Salem, New Jersey. [5] Anchor Hocking's wine and spirit bottles were crafted at a factory in Monaca, Pennsylvania. [6] It also had facilities in Elmira, New York, and Streator, Illinois.
Chambersburg was named for Robert Chambers, a founder of the area, whose family is memorialized by the local Chambers Street. Chambers died in 1865, shortly before the borough was created. [4] Chambersburg was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 2, 1872, from portions of Hamilton Township. [5]
Anthony Rudolph Kuser was born on May 12, 1862, in Newark, New Jersey, to Rudolph Kuser (1818–1891) and Rosalie Prieth (1833–1923). [1] His father was originally from Küsnacht on Lake Zurich, emigrating to the United States in 1844. [2] His mother was born in Innsbruck, Austria. He moved with his family at age 5 to Trenton, New Jersey.