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Great credit therefore is due this firm for their
success in overcoming difficulties well understood by glass-makers, and
doing away with the prejudice of the skilled blowers, who naturally were
not inclined to put the new and more mechanical process of manufacturing
glass on a par with the handicraft of the old. Lyon & Co. also excel
all other American firms in large ware for table services, as well as in
the more delicate objects of use.
In speaking of the improvements in glass-making in
America, we must not overlook what has been done by the New England Glass
Company.
Convinced of the importance of scientific skill in
their business, they secured some years ago the services of
Mr. Leighton and his three sons,
at a liberal compensation. Besides possessing the best practical
knowledge, they had also artistic taste, which enabled them to give
elegant finish to their workmanship, and to introduce new and more
beautiful patterns into it.
They did not neglect, however, the more homely
but useful articles; but executed orders for large and heavy objects for
druggists' and chemical wares and philosophical apparatus, so satisfactorily
as to secure a monopoly in them.
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