In 1811 they erected a larger and improved factory in South Boston, and sent to England for more blowers of window glass but could not get them on account of the war so they turned to using flint glass blowers, previously brought from Europe. This factory in South Boston was the “parent tree” of the Sandwich works. It failed in the thirties and started up again and failed many times but was running in 1854. Another Company was formed in 1811 called the Porcelain and Glass Manufacturing Company at East Cambridge but it failed in the production of both attempted products because of poor management. The plant was sold at auction November, 1817, and bought by a new company which called itself The New England Glass Company. This enterprise was successful from the beginning—in 1817, thus we see that some specimens of N. E. G. are of earlier date than Sandwich glass. Its capital of $40,000 in 1817 increased until in 1853 it was $500,000. The start was a six pot furnace with 700 pounds to each pot. Forty hands were employed and the yearly product was $40,000. In 1853 there were five furnaces with ten pots of 2,000 pounds each and 500 hands, and doing a business of $500,000. The author hopes that this may throw some light upon the incredulous amateur collector’s query of “Where does all the old glass come from?” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SANDWICH GLASS WORKS_ In 1825 a flint glass manufactory was established at Sandwich, Massachusetts. Building was started in April, and July 4th, 1825 they commenced blowing. It was purchased in 1826 by a new company calling itself The Boston and Sandwich Glass Company. The beginning was an 8 pot furnace—each pot holding 800 pounds and a yearly product of $75,000. There were at first 60 employees but by 1853 the capital was $400,000 with weekly melts of 100,000 pounds—500 employees—four furnaces of 10 pots producing yearly $600,000 worth of cup plates, lamps, dishes, salt cellars, etcetra. Deming Jarves, one of the incorporators of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, writes in 1854 as follows: “In 1825 a Flint Glass Manufactory was established by individual enterprise in Sandwich, Massachusetts. Ground was broke in April, dwellings for the workmen built and the manufactory completed; and on July 4, 1825 they commenced blowing glass, three months after first breaking ground.” In the early days of the factory the life of a glass blower was short due to the overheated glass houses but for twenty years prior to 1854 no employee of the Boston and Sandwich Company died or was seriously ill from his employment. The invention of the mold machine saved many lives. The pressing mold for glass was invented in 1827 by a workman named Robinson at the New England Glass Company but was later adopted and perfected by the Sandwich works. ------------------------------------------------------------------------