The “Hoosier cabinet” jars were especially popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Sneath made a wide variety of types of glassware, including kerosene lamp globes, semaphore signal globes and glass “Hoosier cabinet” jars such as spice jars, coffee and tea jars, salt and pepper sets, etc. Sneath operated for a short time in Tiffin but a new plant was built and started glass production in September of 1894. This mark is seen on certain types of glassware including canister jars. Brockway Glass Company bought the Sterling factory in 1950.
Sterling operated as the “Sterling Division” of the Warfield Company of Chicago from about 1940 until 1950. Hand-blown bottles were produced from 1914 to 1918, at which time semi-automatic production was introduced. ALSO, a similar mark was used by Sterling Glass Company, Lapel, Indiana (1914-1950). 1920, per Toulouse in “ Bottle Makers and their Marks“, 1971. Reportedly used on machine-made bottles after c. Owens Bottle Company, which purchased the six glass plants of the American Bottle Company in 1916, continued the operation of only two of those ABCO plants (their Newark, OH & Streator, IL locations) under the American Bottle Company name until 1929, and used this type of marking on many of their bottles.
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These marks were used by ABCO at least during the 1916-1923 period, and evidence from bottle collectors indicate these date code markings may have been used as early as 1905 (when American Bottle Company was incorporated), all the way up to at least 1929 in some cases. The number usually precedes the letter, but in some cases the order may be reversed. Mark is seen mostly on the lower heel area on soda and beer bottles. 16S (or with other 2-digit number between 16 and 29)……….in most cases indicates production by the American Bottle Company, at their Streator, Illinois plant location.Many such bottles with an initial on the base were purposely made with no glass manufacturer identification. Note: as with the great majority of cases involving soda bottles of the late 19th and early twentieth century, if the bottle base has just a large letter, such as S (or any letter, or initials comprised of 2 or more letters) and this corresponds to the initials of the bottling company name embossed on the side, that would serve as a self-explanatory meaning, and nearly always is not indicating the glass manufacturer. If the “S’ is on a clear bottle, or on a machine-made bottle, that would indicate another maker. The “S” is seen on the bottom of some hand-blown ‘strapside’ liquor flasks (usually in amber or blue-aqua) and certain other bottles which are found in the eastern states. S (on the base of bottles) ………………….In some cases this mark was used by Lyndeboro Glass Company, South Lyndeborough, New Hampshire (1866-1888).Here is an interesting article about their glass lidded turkey dishes which had been made by L.E. Smith factory was closed in June, 2004, although Scottish-born Pittsburgh businessman William Kelman purchased the property in 2005 and hoped to revitalize the works, but this evidently did not work out in the long run. This mark was introduced in the 1960s and evidently was used on only a very small percentage of their output. Smith Glass Company, Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania (1907-2005).
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