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| Mosser Glass Cambridge Ohio |
Thursday- We leave wheeling and head for Cambridge Ohio to visit Mosser Glass. Mosser was started by Tom Mosser in the 1960's making pressed glass. Mosser makes wonderful pieces of glassware and also Medical glass equipment and specialty pieces like the 1927 Ford lenses being produced for a California car restoration business.
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| Mosser Glass- Heating edges of a pitcher to smooth it. Show pieces made by Mosser |
Mold and plunger at Mosser
In the pressed glass process, how does this work? With your group research and find out.
Many of the molds used at Mosser are made in West Virginia.
Finished lens (see picture 1 )After leaving Mosser we head for Pittsburgh PA to check into our Hotel for the rest of our trip. We will be visiting museums a conservatory. Saturday we will be making glass at the Pittsburgh Glass Center.
Pittsburgh PA
The Monongahela and Allegheny join to form the Ohio 
I like how you used group work to explore the making of pressed glass.
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ReplyDeleteIf you get with us on Friday evening, we can help you upload your photos to the blog.
The added photos really enhance your blog. Today's students are so visual that having images and video is really important.
ReplyDeleteI was encouraged to hear that Mosser had purchase some of Fenton's molds. Would love to see Fenton survive, but if not it is nice to know many of their signature pieces will continue to be produced.
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