Ball Brothers Glass Mfg. Co.

Author: Bill Lockhart (attributed — style and sources match) · PDF: assets/pdfs/lockhart-ball-brothers-glass-mfg-co.pdf

A 30-page monograph tracing Ball Brothers’ coffee-can and glass-container history from the 1880s Buffalo, NY origins through later plant operations. References Toulouse (1969), Roller (1983, 1997), and Ball family history (1937). The style and source list match Bill Lockhart’s other Society for Historical Archaeology monographs; attribution is curator-inferred and should be verified against the SHA publication index.

Relevance to H&H

Ball Brothers Glass is H&H’s documented second Crystalvac jar supplier (1936 – ?). Per Crystalvac § Glass supplier succession:

“Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company (1936–?) — Muncie, Indiana national glass manufacturer. Acquired Three Rivers in 1936. Crystalvac jars dated to the mid-to-late 1930s carry Ball heritage marks; the precise span of Ball-period Crystalvac production is open pending a mold-mark survey.”

This monograph provides external mark-and-mold documentation that should complement the project’s own Crystalvac Jars mold-mark survey work. It covers Ball’s pre-1936 Buffalo origins and corporate development; the specific 1936-onward Texas plant acquisition (Three Rivers) is more narrowly covered in Lockhart’s Three Rivers paper and Smith 1989.

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