Harold Bennett worked at Cambridge Glass as a young man. In my opinion Cambridge collectors owe more than they could possibly imagine to Harold. When the plant closed for the final time in 1958, orders were given to several young workers that their final job was to take all the factory "paperwork" to the city dump in their pickup trucks. Now even though Harold was a young guy, he thought that was wrong, so he went to the dump as ordered, but spent a couple of days at night going through the mounds of paperwork and reloaded his pickup with all the factory catalogs he could find plus any other factory records he thought might be important. He "stored" them in his Dad's barn. Harold started the Guernsey County Glass Company in 1967 and owned the "Nearcut" trademark. Very soon after opening the County Commissioners objected to the name and the company was renamed Guernsey Glass. The Mosser family made the pours. Regarding the Cambridge molds mentioned in the Vaseline Glass site blurb...they were all Nearcut molds & even a couple of molds from the old National Glass combine that somehow escaped the WWII scrap drive. These molds were taken to the dump after the closing because IG was not interested in purchasing them. He authored the Cambridge Glass Book in 1970 which featured he & Judy's considerable collection of Cambridge. Harold & his wife Judy owned & operated the "private" Cambridge Glass Museum which they opened in 1973 as well as their antique shop across the street from the museum. Harold became a member of the fledgling National Cambridge Collectors along with his wife Judy and shared his considerable stash of catalogs and other factory information. His contribution coupled with contributions from the Welker family and others are the reason why 99% of all Cambridge references are published by NCC. Harold Bennett (rest his soul) stopped selling glass, I believe, close to 20 years ago. Judy sold the entire inventory of the museum approximately fouryears ago. Ken Nicol 5/26/2008
