1930s MacBeth Evans Art Deco Black Amethyst Glass Vase Stippled Diamond Dart NR

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1930s MacBeth-Evans Art Deco Black Amethyst Glass Vase Stippled Diamond Dart depression glass era.
Great looking old vase, approximately 8 1/4 inches tall, 4 1/4 inches across widest middle, 2 1/2 inches top diameter, and approximately 2 7/8 inches bottom diameter.
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The
Macbeth-Evans Glass Company
was an American glass company that created "almost every kind of glass for illuminating, industrial and scientific purposes," but is today famous for making depression glass.
[1]
The company was established in 1899 after a merger between the glass companies of Thomas Evans and George A. Macbeth.
[1]
The company was based out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and operated multiple offices in the region, but the most significant glass works was located in
Charleroi, Pennsylvania
.
[1]
It quickly absorbed the American Chimney Lamp Company to gain control of
M. J. Owens
's patents on the Owens glass-blowing machine, as well as Hogans-Evans Company, becoming at the time the largest lamp glass manufacturer in the world.
[2]
During
World War I
, most of the company's production was dedicated to producing glass, particularly reflectors for searchlights, for the army and navy.
[1]
The company was bought by
Corning Glass Works
in 1936,
[3]
but it continued to operate as the "Macbeth-Evans Division of Corning Glass Works in Charleroi, Pennsylvania