The Illinois Glass Company was founded in 1873 (McKearin and Wilson,
"American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry," Crown Publishers, New
York, p. 691).  However, prior to1900, their bottles were embossed "IG" or
"IGCo", according to my sources.  I don't have the Snyder reference.  The
situation is made a bit more murky by the existence of the Ihmsen Glass
Company of Pittsburgh, which had the logo "I.G.Co." without the diamond
(Griffenhagen and Bogard, "History of Drug Containers and Their Labels,"
Publ. by the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, Madison,
Wisconsin, 1999, p. 124.).

Allen Vegotsky
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From: Dylan Stapleton <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 5:47 PM
Subject: Need to Locate an Out of Print Reference by Bob Snyder


>I am trying to track down an out of print reference book by Bob Snyder
>titled "Bottles in Miniature" vol.3. I've searched the CSU database, the UC
>database, the Stanford University database and the California State Library
>catalog. If any one has this book, I need a copy of page 5 of volume 3 as I
>am told it gives a date range of 1873-1929 for a trademark ( "IG Co" inside
>a diamond) from the Illinois Glass Company that I am researching. You may
>recall a previous thread on this subject which gave me a different date of
>1900-1916 from Toulouse and Giarde. Assuming this other source has the
>correct trademark, does anyone know why there would be such a difference in
>dates? Could these three references be mixing up two different companies
>that happened to use the same trademark for a while?
>