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Antique T.C.W.CO 3 1/2 CLEAR Glass Jeweler Dentist Alcohol Lamp GROUND TOP:
$39.99
-----#T-----Antique T.C.W.CO 3 1/2 CLEAR Glass Jeweler DentistAlcohol Lamp GROUND TOP. NICE CLEAR GLASS NO RESIDUE ETC. WICK BURNED JUST ENOUGH TO LOOK NICE. GROUND GLASS TOP.The T.C. Wheaton Companies
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It all began when Dr. Theodore C. Wheaton financed two entrepreneurs to start a glass
house in 1888. When their business failed – almost immediately – he took over the enterprise,
turning it into a highly successful concern – T.C. Wheaton & Co. The firm dropped the
ampersand from its name in 1901 but continued hand production of its bottles and other products
until 1937, turning fully automatic the following year. Beginning in 1960, increasingly larger
firms took control of Wheaton, but the huge firm continues in operation in 2019.
Histories
T.C. Wheaton & Co., Millville, New Jersey (1888-1901)
Two local entrepreneurs (only recorded as Schull and Goodwin) began construction of the
factory for the Schull-Goodwin Glass Co. but were delayed by the East Coast Blizzard of 1888.
Eventually, they completed the plant but ran short of money. They approached Dr. Theodore C.
Wheaton, a local physician and pharmacist. Wheaton loaned the pair $3,000, then, on October
24, 1888,1 he gained a controlling interest in the new firm – now called T.C. Wheaton & Co.
(Answers.com [2009]; Griffenhagen and Bogard 1999:105).
According to Pepper (1971:247), the plant began “in a small way with a 6-pot furnace
operated by a dozen men and twice as many boys” (Pepper 1971:247). The factory produced
homeopathic and screw-cap vials, laboratory glass, perfume bottles, pharmaceutical glass
(including prescription bottles), and nursing bottles. Much of the factory burned on November
24, 1889, then Wheaton abandoned his medical practice by June 1890 to devote his full energy to
the glass business (Answers.com [2009]). The firm introduced Red Star homeopathic vials in
1893 and the Red Star toothwash bottle in 1895 (Griffenhagen and Boga
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