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Durand Art Glass Durand Art Glass was produced for seven brief years (1924 to 1931) in Vineland, New Jersey, by Victor Durand Jr, a French immigrant who owned and operated the successful Vineland Flint Glass Works which produced various lines of commercial wares. The Flint works had been founded with Durand’s father in 1897. A man with foresight and ingenuity, Durand Jr. was the first to produce a thermos bottle in this country along [...] Click here to continue reading. Landers, Frary & Clark Coffee Grinders & Mills Landers, Frary & Clark of New Britain, Connecticut was a prolific producer of household goods. Incorporated in 1865, the company was successful and prosperous for nearly 100 years. Coffee grinder production began in the mid-1870′s. Key patents by Rudolphus Webb in 1875 and 1878 helped to get that business off to a fast start. Later patents kept new and highly popular coffee mill models coming for [...] Click here to continue reading. The Edison Ideal or Idelia Phonograph The Edison Ideal Phonograph first became available for purchase by the public in October of 1907. The name Ideal was only used for the first two months of production, due to troubles with foreign marketing, as well as potential legal infractions with that name in the United States. The Ideal was renamed Idelia in January of 1908, and was Edison’s top-of-the-line phonograph until 1911, when it began to [...] Click here to continue reading. Mine Cut Diamonds Mine cut diamonds are among the earliest cut stones found in jewelry today. Cut in the 18th and 19th centuries, these early form of the “brilliant” diamond were cut with a squarish shaped girdle having rounded corners, high crown, small table pavilion and very large cutlet. Using rather crude tools compared to the modern diamond-cutter these stones were often cut for weight rather than light reflection. This form of cutting began [...] Click here to continue reading. Sevres Porcelain Sevres Porcelain is known for its high quality, gilded and hand-painted decoration and wealthy and aristrocratic clientele, the French Sevres Porcelain Factory was founded in 1738 at Chateau de Vincennes, by local craftsmen from a nearby porcelain factory at Chantilly. Louis XV, the French “Sun King”, was a partial owner of the Sevres works and granted them a twenty year monopoly along with the title of Royal Manufacturer of Porcelain. Circa 1759 [...] Click here to continue reading. Solomon Parke, Clockmaker Solomon Parke maintained a clockmaker’s trade in Newtown, Pennsylvania, circa 1780, before he moved to Philadelphia, circa 1790. At the time of this move Parke signed his clocks “Solomon Parke, Philad”, five years later his clocks were marked Solomon Parke & Company, and circa 1805 his clocks began being marked Solomon Parke and Son, or Parke and Son. James & Ralph Clews In 1815 the brothers James and Ralph Clews rented a pottery works from William Adams in the Staffordshire village of Cobridge where they produced their specialty, high quality blue transfer printed wares, until their partnership ended in 1834. Serving primarily the American and Russian markets, the Clews brothers produced a number of popular American design series, including “American Views” and “The Landing of Lafayette”. In addition Clews produced the Zoological [...] Click here to continue reading. Longchamp French Majolica Located near Dijon, France, the Longchamp factory specialized in oyster plates, asparagus servers and wall plaques, all decorated with lemons, apples, grapes and other fruits. For further reference, see “Majolica: A Complete History & Illustrated Survey”, by Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, 1989. Holdcroft Majolica The English potter Joseph Holdcroft established the Sutherland Pottery in Longton at Daisy Bank, England in 1870 and operated until 1906 when its name changed to Holdcroft Ltd., as which they continued operations until 1920. Having eighteen years experience at the Mintons pottery, Holdcroft was proficient in manufacturing majolica, especially birds and flowers. Holdcroft majolica is hard to date since it was rarely marked. The colors most used in his ware were [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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