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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Covered Pomade
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Covered Pomade

Manufacturer Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. (American, 1826-1888)
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1850-1870
MediumPressed glass
DimensionsOverall: 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.4225
Not on view
DescriptionEgg cup/pomade and cover of opaline/clam broth (transluscent white) glass with a fine ribbed pressed pattern. Blank shield on one side of the cup. Cover matches. Acorn shaped finial. The shield seems to have been made to take a paper label for Phalon's.

Published ReferencesBarlow, _The Glass Industry in Sandwich_, VOL. 3, #3270, pg. 195.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
ca. 1850-1870
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
ca. 1850-1870
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
ca. 1850-1870
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
ca. 1850-1870
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
ca. 1850-1870
Photograph by Shannon Ruff, Canon EOS Mark II D digital slr-2006.
Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
ca. 1858-1873
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Robert Hennell I
1780-81
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
New England Glass Company
ca. 1860-1870
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Fuller White
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