Northwood Glass Company, Wheeling, West Virginia
My first piece of carnival glass was an amethyst Northwood Grape and Cable Banana Boat. I bought it at a garage sale for $5 and was pretty sure that the lady had swindled me. It was a few years later that I became enamoured with Carnival glass and began building a collection.
Harry & Carl Northwood grew up in England. They learned the glass trade from their father, John, who carved cameo glass and was art director at the Stevens & Williams firm in West Midlands, England.
Harry worked for Hobbs-Brockunier Glass Co. in Wheeling and at LaBelle Glass Co. in Bridgeport, Ohio in the early 1880s/ He started his own companies during the 1880s and 1890s in Martins Ferry, Ohio; Ellwood City, Pa.; and Indiana, Pa.
The underlined “N” in a circle is the most frequently seen mark in classic era Carnival. Not all Northwood patterns carry the mark:
Northwood produced their first piece of carnival glass in 1908. The firm eventually went bankrupt in 1925 never quite getting back on track after Harry Northwood’s death in 1918.
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