Blue glass pedestal eye bath
 Catalogue Number: 4406 Blue glass pedestal eye bath Category: Equipment Sub-Category: Eye baths, bottles, jars Practice/Business: Whitall, Tatum & Co Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1924-1938 Time Period: 1900 to 1939 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: USA Publisher/Manufacturer: Whitall Tatum and Co. Description Of Item: Blue glass pedestal eye bath, 40 mm W x 59 mm H. Fluted sides to oval shaped eye cup. Octagonal pedestal column above round base. Marked ' W. T. CO./ C / USA' under base. According to Eye baths, Sturrock, George, 2012, this mark dates this example to the period 1924-1938. Historical Significance: Whitall Tatum and Co. was one of the earliest and best known manufacturers of prescription flint glassware. Located in Millville New Jersey, it was founded 1806 and used the initials W. T. Co. to identify its products from 1857. It made bottles and jars from 1806 to 1938 and at one time was largest producer of flint glass containers in the world. See Bottles and Jars Summer 2006. It was purchased by Armstrong Cork Company in 1938 which owned the operation until 1969. It originally made window glass but by 1820 was producing carboys, demijohns, vials, druggists bottles, and snuffs. Sturrock dates eye baths with 'C' mark as 1924-1938. How Acquired: Donated by Pamela Sutton, honorary archivist Date Acquired: July 2023 Condition: Very good, one bubble evident within rim Location: Archive Office. Spectacles cabinet Drawer 18 |