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Glass blowers receipts

 
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Title
Glass blowers receipts
Creator
Thomas H. Sindell
Description
Thomas H. Sindell was a glass manufacturer in the Kensington area of Philadelphia. In the 1850 census, he is listed as a glass blower, living with an elderly woman (possibly his mother) and a small child. Glass making was an important industry in Kensington. Two volumes of recipes, together giving over 200 recipes for glass. The first volume is headed “Glass blowers receipts for making glass enamel pastes gems & colouring glass globes all kinds.” It also includes some rough drawings of a glass furnace. Many kinds of glass are listed: plate and window glass, German crystal, flint glass (many recipes for this), Boston brown glass, white and garnet enamels, topaz hard glass, green without pot or pearl ashes, looking glass, glass with brick bats, claret and Rhine wine glasses, Pittsburgh dark glass, etc. There are also directions for silvering and coloring globes, how to make various oxides, and recipes for German and Missouri clays. One recipe is noted as being from Woodstock, New York. Several recipes include his name: Sindell’s flint and Sindell’s common black, for example. Recipe number 108 is for a decoration called a lead tree. The second volume is called a register, but most of the accounts (if such the register contained) have been removed and only recipes remain. This book contains many recipes for flint glass, as well as “chimnely” glass (glass for lamp chimneys?), and various colored glasses: Saxon green, purple, ruby red, blue, etc. The first volume includes a recipe for the prevention of hydrophobia. The second volume includes recipes for candy, taffy, Washington cake, and a tomato dish (ketchup or relish). As well, there is a Biblical quotation and directions for how to make a light using phosphorus and olive oil. Blank pages not scanned. One volume is covered with worn marbled boards and has a leather spine, of which part is missing. The front cover and several pages are detached; the back cover is almost detached. The text block is in good condition, with very little staining. The other volume is covered with leather. The spine is gone and both covers are detached. The flyleaf is loose and several pages have been cut out of the volume. Inside the front cover is a bookseller’s ticket for Henry Mansfield’s Kensington Book & Stationery Store.
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