Hazel Atlas Milk Glass Strawberry Jam Jar Sugar Bowl

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Hazel Atlas Milk Glass Strawberry Jam Jar Sugar Bowl PLATONITE RED STRAWBERRY Jam Jar HAZEL-ATLAS This beautiful white platonite jar with lid features a fired-on red and green exterior. It measures approximately 3 1/4" wide and stands 4" tall. It is in excellent condition with no nicks,chips or cracks. Just lovely piece of Hazel Atlas Glass that you are sure to want to add to your vintage glassware collection - platonite was their name for milk glass. FYIThe roots of the firm date back to 1885, when two men, Charles N. Brady and Charles H. Tallman, set up shop in a shed in Wellsburg, W.Va., for the purpose of making glass liners for the zinc lids of Mason jars. It was a tradition at the time for blast furnaces to be given names, so Brady's sister-in-law named their stack Hazel. The following year they moved to larger quarters in Washington, Pa., and in 1887 made their first holloware ointment jars, oil and molasses cans, lamp bases and chimneys, introducing opal glass containers when other firms were using only flint or amber glass. As the business expanded and diversified, a new corporation, the Atlas Glass Co., was formed for the sole purpose of making fruit jars, while the Hazel Co. made such commercial products as Vaseline jars, ink bottles and jam and pickle jars. In 1902, the two companies merged, and Hazel-Atlas would continue read more

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