Phoenix Glass Company stock certificate 1930s 1940s (West Virginia)

Sculptured art glass. Great fancy (arty) printing of background green and company name plate. Issued and cancelled. Dated 1930 and 1940s. Incorporated 1891 (company seal). Small tears and holes in left borders. Measures approximately 11 x 7.5 inches.

Incorporated 1891 in West Virginia, the Phoenix Glass Company operated in Monaca PA and several other sites.

The Phoenix Glass Company was formed in 1880 in Monaca, Pennsylvania where they produced oil and gas lamp chimneys. During the 1880's and 1890's they produced a large volume of colored cut glass, etched glass, hand decorated glass, and fancy colored art glass.

Phoenix Glass is associated with the sculptured art glass which they produced from 1933 to 1958. This glass was hand blown into special molds which had mold joints following the pattern in the glass to avoid obvious mold lines.

From 1933 to 1936 Phoenix produced Consolidated's Martele designs under the name Phoenix Reuben line. There were differences in the glass quality and the colors used, which are recorded in specialist books on Phoenix glass

In 1936 the Martele molds were returned to Consolidated. Their Wild Rose vase was virtually identical to the Consolidated vase called Dogwood, but the coloring and finish were different. Phoenix produced an extensive range of Sculptured glass designs which were different from those produced by Consolidated; and apart from the period 1933 to 1936, the Consolidated designs were not produced by Phoenix.

Phoenix stopped making their sculptured art glass in 1958, but there were some later products made from the Phoenix molds. The Davis-Lynch Company borrowed some molds and made a few hundred vases in plain colors in the late 1960's. Anchor Hocking took over Phoenix Glass in 1970, and in 1976 they also had some Sculptured pieces produced in solid plain colors without any contrasting coloring. There have been special pieces made for Phoenix workers and for special commemorative occasions, in small numbers. Phoenix became part of Anchor Hocking Industrial Glass and no longer made art glass.

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