0166:: 1869 Henry Greener hobnail 3½” clear glass creamer “Gladstone for the Million”

1869 Henry Greener hobnail 3½” clear glass creamer “Gladstone for the Million”

Dimensions: 3½”H

Greener’s Glass from The Glass Encyclopedia. A short explanation of Greener’s Glass:

“In 1858 Henry Greener and James Angus started glass-making at the Wear Flint Glass Works in Sunderland, North East England. The company was known as Angus and Greener until Angus died in 1869, when the name was changed to Greener. In the second half of the nineteenth century this was one of the major English glassworks, and they made a wide range of tableware, novelties, and household glassware. It can be identified by its registration marks and, from 1875 onwards, by the Greener trade marks.

“Henry Greener died in 1882, and the business ran into financial difficulties a few years later. In 1885 a new trademark was registered, and a year later the company was sold to its principle creditor, James Augustus Jobling, a Newcastle upon Tyne industrialist. The company continued with the name Greener until 1921, when it was re-named James A Jobling and Company. At that time it was entering a new era making PYREX and, in the 1930’s, high quality pressed art glass. Eventually they became part of the USA company Corning and continue to this day making specialist commercial glass (not glassware).”