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The Water Glass – Beyond Goblet and Tumbler
When one orders water in a fine dining restaurant it becomes rapidly clear that water is, in most cases, an afterthought. We have been served water in all possible contraptions from heavy whiskey tumblers to long highball glasses and the dreaded lemonade glass. A wide variety of wine glasses are also often used as water glasses. This is not appropriate. |
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| Contemporary Water Glasses
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Riedel Water Glasses and Goblets
The 9th generation, Claus J. Riedel (born 1925) had a vision. He changed stemware from traditional coloured and cut glass to plain, unadorned, thin blown, long stemmed wine glasses. He gained immediate recognition from sophisticated customers and museums. Many design awards signalled that a new era had began. Museums bought pieces for their exhibition, like the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which today still has Riedel in their permanent collection. |
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| Classic American Water Goblets and Tumblers
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Central Glass Company
The business of the Central Glass Company was started Wheeling, West Virginia on the co-operative plan in the spring of 1863, with a capital of $5,000. After the expiration of three years the company bought the grounds and buildings of the East Wheeling distillery and pork packing house, for the purpose of converting them into a glass manufacturing establishment, which, in point of magnitude and completeness, was destined to stand on a par with anything of the kind in the United States. |
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Fostoria Glass Company Water Goblets and Tumblers
Besides Fostorias regular line of blown, etched and pressed patterns they did custom work such as providing glass with government seals for officials in Washington. All the presidents from Eisenhower through Reagan ordered glassware from them. At one time Fostoria was the largest maker of handmade glassware in the United States, employing nearly 1000 people. |
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Indiana Glass Company
Indiana Glass Company of Dunkirk, Indiana (1926-1931), produced a limited number of mold-etched glass pattern in tableware in the early period of the Depression. Before this, Indiana produced pressed-glass tableware that they continued to make into the 1930s. Indiana identified their pattern with catalog numbers rather than names. |
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Morgantown Glass Works Water Goblets & Tumblers
The Morgantown Glass Works was founded in 1899 near the Seneca Glass Company of Morgantown, West Virginia where it produced hand blown glassware of high quality. In the early years, colorless glass was their main production line producing blown glass tumblers and pressed tableware. |
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Pilgrim Glass of West Virginia
With a degree in ceramic engineering and a flair for sales, Alfred Knobler purchased the failing Tri State Glass Manufacturing Company in Huntington, West Virginia in 1949 and began production. In 1956 he built the current production facility several miles away in Ceredo, West Virginia. |
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Smith Glass Water Goblets & Tumblers
Today, L. E. Smith Glass is preserving the "lost art" of making glass by hand. Through hard work and a commitment to quality, the company has withstood the test of time and we are one of only a handful of American hand-made glass factories remaining. |
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Westmoreland Glass Water Goblets & Tumblers
In 1889 a group of investors took the risk of founding a glass company - it became the Westmoreland Glass Company of Grapeville, Pennsylvania and had a successful history that spanned nearly 100 years. These intrepid individuals did more than start a glass factory - they touched all our lives by giving us the beautiful handmade glassware we collect and cherish today. |
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