Block, Printing
Object number2017.74.5
MediumWood; Metal; Ink; Adhesive
Credit LineGift of National Glass Budget
DescriptionPrinting block consisting of rectangular block of wood with metal plate adhered on front. Metal plate has inverted advertisement containing text and product logos/imagery; yellow tint to raised metal surfaces. Plate contains advertisement for Davison Chemical glass polishing powder products. Ink residue on wood block.DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth: 5.375 × 2.75 × 0.938 in. (13.7 × 7 × 2.4 cm)InscriptionsFront of plate has inverted text including "TO LEARN MORE ABOUT" across top, "GLASS POLISHING POWDERS" across center, and at bottom "call the polishing powder / people at (201) 835-3060 / DAVISON CHEMICAL / A GRACE DIVISION / Sales: Box 188, Pompton Plains, New Jersey 07444".
Front of plate has four rectangular sections of product information; each has the following text on bottom half "CERIUM OXIDE / POLISHING POWDER / GRACE / DAVISON CHEMICAL / Sales Office Pompton Plains, New Jersey 07444".
Each product rectangle has "OPTICAL QUALITY" somewhere in the advertisement.
Top left product rectangle has "RAREOX / 90" at top with bull's horns flanking the "90".
Top right product rectangle has text "RAREOX" at top above a bull's head.
Bottom left product rectangle has "Super fast" across a bull's head in script.
Bottom right product rectangle has "vitrox / "C" " on a beaker.
Historical NotesThe National Glass Budget (NGB), a weekly review of the American glass industry that covered glass manufacture and distribution, was established in Wheeling, West Virginia, by Michel J. Owens as the Ohio Valley Boycotter in 1884. A Pittsburgh politician named Tim O’Leary acquired the publication and renamed it the National Glass Budget in 1890. Originally created as a union workers' publication, the NGB became increasingly orientated with the manufacturing side of the glass industry in the early twentieth century. The NGB boasted the largest circulation of any U.S. glass industry publication among manufacturers, jobbers, and dealers in all kinds of glass products during the twentieth century. The NGB also published special reports on associated enterprises which affected the glass industry. Elizabeth Scott became editor of the National Glass Budget in 1978. The NGB's name was changed to Glass News in 1984 and discontinued in 1988. The Glass Factory Directories are still being published.
Previous owner
National Glass Budget
Related institution
Davison Chemical Company
Terms
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Wood Specialty Company
1974
1972
