PEAR INKWELL (AKA) neg
• AKA:
• MAKER: New England Glass Company/Cambridge-MA (Company Operated: 1818-1887), Introduced: c1875 introduced
• NOTE: Sid Lethbridge 2024 - The design patent for this inkstand was issued to George E Hatch of East Cambridge, MA on December 27, 1875. It has been assumed that he was working for the New England Glass Co. at that time because he had assigned a design patent that that firm earlier that same year. A few years later, Hatch was in Meriden, CT and assigned several patents to the Meriden Flint Glass Co.
• MOTIFS: Fruits/Grains/Nuts/Vegetables, Figural, Letters/Numbers