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pressed goblet marked 'M. G. EDSON & Co.'
neilh:
According to a hit on this link, MG Edson were based in Montreal
http://archive.org/stream/cihm_09647/cihm_09647_djvu.txt
There was a Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal who is credited with inventing peanut butter!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_Gilmore_Edson
Can't prove they had anything to do with glass, but other examples of the same goblet are in North American museums, from what I see online.
Paul S.:
Neil - thanks for taking the time to look around. Have to admit to my lack of pc skills, and regret I can't locate Edson on your first link - although the peanut butter link reminds me that as kids this product was a popular teatime sandwich filler - perhaps this glass was a promotional item - and when purchased, it came full of peanut butter ;)
thanks again.
Anne:
Paul, for reference I'll add the facts from Neil's link here for you:
The title of the document is "The authorized catalogue of the first annual exhibition of the Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition Association of Toronto [microform] : held in the new Exhibition Park, in the city of Toronto : open from September 1st to September 19th, 1879"
and there are two mentions of M G Edson & Co. of Montreal, in it which refer to them in connection with easy chairs for invalids. No mention of peanut butter! :) (But the peanut butter patent is here: http://www.google.com/patents/US306727?printsec=description#v=onepage&q&f=false)
Another website gives bio family tree info about Edson: http://houliston.lisaandroger.com/getperson.php?personID=I5601&tree=Houliston - he was a druggist / manufacturing chemist in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Paul S.:
thanks very much Anne.........for someone born in 1849, Marcellus lived to the ripe old age of 91, no mean feat having started off life in the middle of the C19. I can imagine it's not too great a leap of mind to believe this goblet may well have been a promotional item originating with Edson the druggist in your link - can't think that the name E. M. Edson would be common, so likelihood of this connection seems quite strong. Likewise between druggist/Manufacturing chemist and easy chairs for invalids.
I'll add the photos to the labels and marks site.
thanks again to Neil.
Sid:
Paul
And chocolate and mustard and ....? The man was obviously an entrepreneur with all these various businesses/products he was associated with.
I have a goblet with the same design as yours but no mark on the base unfortunately. It has a slightly raised flat band of glass on the exterior of the lip which is likely for getting a good seal for a metal lid. The glass is not very good - unfinished with no fire polishing. I suspect this was packers' ware sold by a glass company to folks like Edson to fill with their mustard or other condiment. Maybe even a Canadian glass factory but we won't know until a catalog appears somewhere, somewhen.
Thanks for posting this picture. May I use it for a short article in Glass Facts (the official journal of Glasfax, a group dedicated to the study of glass manufactured/used in Canada)? Credit will be provided of course.
Sid
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