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Wilson has summarized the history of the libbey glass company as follows from an article new discoveries in american glass 1760 1930 published in the magazine antiques dec 1993 p.
In 1888 edward drummond libbey son of the first corporate owner william moved the company to toledo ohio.
Libbey inc formerly libbey glass company and new england glass company is a glass production company headquartered in toledo ohio it was originally founded 202 years ago in cambridge massachusetts as the new england glass company in 1818 before relocating to ohio in 1888 and renaming to libbey glass co after it was purchased in 1935 it operated as part of the libbey owens ford company.
Libbey hails originally from east cambridge massachusetts home of the new england glass company which was founded in 1818.
After designing machines to produce light bulbs tumblers and lamp chimneys owens in 1903 invented the automatic bottle blowing machine one of the most important advances in the history of glassmaking resulting in a variety of glass products that now became affordable.
Home history libbey glass company the libbey story begins in 1818 in east cambridge massachusetts with the establishment of the new england glass company.
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The company which focused primarily on the production of cut glass was said to have grown to be the largest glass plant in the world by the mid century.
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With libbey glass enjoying the fruits of prosperity edward libbey was able to back the pioneering work of michael owens.