Northwood Glass

Just purchased some nice Northwood Glass pieces for those collectors out there.

Northwood, a Fenton rival, was founded in 1896 in Indiana, Pennsylvania by the Englishman Harry Northwood, the son of a prominent glassmaker. At the age of 20, he migrated to America in 1880. Prior to founding his own company in 1887, Northwood had worked at a number of well known glass manufacturers, apprenticing and thoroughly learning the trade.

He joined with the National Glass Company briefly only to subsequently form the Harry Northwood Glass Company in 1901 in Wheeling, West Virginia. Also in 1901, he purchased Hobbs, Brockunier and Company, where he first started out in 1880. For the next couple years, there were two Northwood plants.

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