Sandwich Glass Company 2
The Sandwich factory was the first to adopt and perfect the process of producing fine glass in a mold under pressure, rather than by the traditional method of blowing. The molding process was invented by a workman named Enoch Robinson. This process was later borrowed and used by Baccarat.
In 1849 Deeming Jarves gave to the chemists of the Boston and Sandwich Company a set of color formulas published by Apsley Pellatt. This they were instructed to follow. The colors in Sandwich glass resemble those of the Baccarat factory, from which many of the Sandwich workmen were drawn. Certainly, no other factory excelled Sandwich in the perfection and range of its colors. A book of formulas for colored glass which was prepared in 1868 by James D. Lloyd for the use of Sandwich workmen, is now owned by Henry Ford. It shows no less than thirty shades of blue, and the range of other colors included is correspondingly wide.
In 1849 Deeming Jarves gave to the chemists of the Boston and Sandwich Company a set of color formulas published by Apsley Pellatt. This they were instructed to follow. The colors in Sandwich glass resemble those of the Baccarat factory, from which many of the Sandwich workmen were drawn. Certainly, no other factory excelled Sandwich in the perfection and range of its colors. A book of formulas for colored glass which was prepared in 1868 by James D. Lloyd for the use of Sandwich workmen, is now owned by Henry Ford. It shows no less than thirty shades of blue, and the range of other colors included is correspondingly wide.
| Among the Sandwich paperweights, the millefiori and candy type are quite common. The flower and fruit subjects have a distinction which is admirably illustrated by the fuchsia, with its pink stem-quite comparable with the same subject in Baccarat which often has a yellow stem. (Illustration 50).
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| The pink poinsettia was the favorite Sandwich flower and the example in Illustration 2 shows the drops of dew on the petals.
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| The dahlia has the appearance of being made at the Baccarat factory, but from the composition of the glass we know it is andwich.
(See Illustration 51.) This is also found sometimes in purple or blue, with a bud and leaves on either a clear, mottled or latticinio background. The pansy is treated similarly in Sandwich weights, and is often hard to distinguish from the same subject in Bristol. This is perhaps explained by the fact that many of the workmen came from the Bristol factory. |
