Deming Jarves

Reminiscences of Glass Making Deming Jarves

This special re-print edition of Paul Deming Jarves' book "Reminiscences of Glass Making" is a unique personal history of glass making and glass working. Written in 1854, this classic text provides insight into the work of Deming Jarves (1790-1869) who was a 19th-century American glass manufacturer in Massachusetts. He co-founded the New England Glass Company and founded the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company, renowned for its pressed glass, and the Mount Washington Glass Company. Jarves was born in 1790 in Boston, Massachusetts to a "prosperous cabinetmaker." He worked for the New England Glass Company between 1818 and 1825. He conducted business from offices in Boston, and the company's factory was located in East Cambridge. In 1825, Jarves began the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company with its factory in Sandwich, Massachusetts, specializing in blown glassware, mold-blown glass, and machine-pressed glass. He built the company into what one writer calls "the most important manufacturer of pressed glass in 19th-century America"; he stayed with it until 1858, and it continued until 1888. Jarves founded the Mt. Washington Glass Works in South Boston under the management of Captain Luther Russell. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.