Amberina Glass Beauty Organizer-Jeannette Glass Company

Out of all the Early American Pressed Glass (EAPG) factories in the 1900s, Jeannette Glass Company had the most fascinating designs.
The factory was founded in 1888 in Jeannette, Pennsylvania as initially Jeannette Bottle Works. In 1898, the bottling company became just Jeannette Glass Company and manufactured bottles for drugs, soft drinks, liquors and food containers all by hand. In 1917, Jeannette Glass converted their entire production plant to glass pressed wares and discontinued bottle making. Jeannette’s art glass designs would transcend the glass industry for decades with both Art Nouveau and Art Deco products. Jeannette was one of the finest glassware producers during the infamous Great Depression of the late 1920s and throughout the 1930s.
Jeannette pressed glass products were given away during that time as a promotional strategy by businesses to attract and retain customers during hard economic times.
Jeannette and other glass makers would include pieces of glassware in cereal or oatmeal boxes at dollar stores while movie theaters and gas stations gave them out as prizes or thank-you gifts. These giveaways incentivized customers to make repeat purchases to complete a set once the harsh economic conditions were over. The sad thing was because they were free and massively produced most people threw them out.
During the 1950s and 1960s, Jeannette was in high demand. In 1961, they bought McKee Glass Division of Thatcher Glass Manufacturing Company, a new technical glassware department.
By 1963, Jeannette’s glassworks had the largest electric glass furnace for melting heat-resisting glass.
With household wares turning to plastics in the 70s and foreign mass-produced imports being more economical in the 1980s, Jeannette Glass Company closed its doors in 1983.

This glassworks item from Jeannette is part of their “Amberina Collection” made from around 1959-1972. Amberina glass was first patented in the USA by Joseph Locke and Edward D. Libby in 1883. Amberina Glass is "heat sensitive" glass, which shades in color from amber at the bottom to red at the top. This color shading is due to the effects of reheating the top part of the glass before allowing it to cool. Amberina glass contains a precipitate of colloidal gold (as does gold ruby glass), which is heat sensitive and turns red at the right temperature.
If the effect is reversed and the bottom part of a vessel is reheated rather than the top, the result is called "reverse amberina" - which is red at the bottom and amber at the top. AMBERINA GLASS IS NOT VASELINE OR URANIUM GLASS!!!
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This Jeannette is a beauty (cosmetics) organizer that holds facial powder in the bottom as well as the power applicator pad on the inside bottom of lid. The lid’s finial is a ornate swan with a “canoe rest” for a backside. This feature was added to hold lipstick tubes. I have seen these also used as cigarette rests and ashtrays.

Good Condition (see photos)
Weighs 1 pound 2 ounces
Measures approximately 4.5” X 4.5”

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