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Company History
Company History

Company History
Maryland Glass Corporation
Baltimore, Maryland
1907 - 1981

The Maryland Glass Corporation began as a subsidiary of the Emerson Drug Company, makers of Bromo-Seltzer over-the-counter remedy. The corporation took over the machine manufacture of the cobalt blue bottles used for that product and bottles and jars for companies like Phillips, Noxema, Vicks and others. Cobalt blue vases and other items were also produced. According to Cecil Munsey, author of several books on bottle collecting, "Maryland produced, for example, a blue cigarette jar in 1932..."Happiness" vases in 1933, cigarette trays, memo pad holders, and other items." Two different decanters and a violin vase are also mentioned.

Many products were marked on the bottom with an M until 1916 when the mark changed to M-in-a-circle. Not all products were marked, however. In some cases, companies wanted their own name on the bottom of the containers Maryland made.

In 1968, the corporation was sold to Dorsey Corporation of Chattanooga, Tennessee , which also owned the Chattanooga Glass Company (which used C-in-a-circle as a mark). Maryland Glass Corporation was operated as a Chattanooga Glass site, but both names seem to have been used. Dorsey sold the corporation in 1978, and it became again Maryland Glass Corporation. It closed in bankruptcy in 1981.

The Maryland Glass Corporation of Baltimore and Maryland Glass Company of Cumberland, Maryland were two completely different and separate companies.


References:
Tom Felt , Gene & Bernadette Girard, Encyclopedia of Cobalt Glass, Collector Books, 2009, p. 246, 282.

Cecil Munsey, 1992, http://www.cecilmunsey.com/ See #138 Bromo-Seltzer_blue_glass.pdf

See Also: Tom Felt, 2020 "Maryland Glass Corporation--A Research Note " p. 20-22 in "All About Glass" vol XVIII No. July 2020, p. 20-22.
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