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CA - San Francisco,Illinois-Pacific Glass Company

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
CA - San Francisco,Illinois-Pacific Glass Company
Session D is a Mail-Bid Only Auction. Absentee bids will be accepted only. No live bidding will be allowed. All winners will be contacted after the auction. BIDDING ENDS MONDAY JUNE 27 AT 5PM PACIFIC TIME!!!
Lot of papers and document related to the Illinois-Pacific Glass Company. This company, consolidated in 1902, producted glass products, fruit jars, milk jugs, beer and soda bottles, etc., for companies such as the Kerr Glass Manufacturing Company and the El Dorado Brewing Co. of Stockton, California. The Illinois-Pacific Glass Company was incorporated in 1925 and became the Illinois-Pacific Glass Corporation before being bought by the Owens-Illinois Glass Company which was based out of Illinois. This created one of the largest glass manufacturing companies on the west coast. These papers include mainly correspondence with the El Dorado Brewing Co. regarding purchases. Invoices and notices of receipt of payments are mainly what the correspondence regards. Also incuded is correspondence regarding the installation of an elevator in one of the company's factories. Documents are in good condition and are both typed and handwritten in pen, with notes in pencil. The documents dated between 1890 and 1915. Correspondence with other compaines is also present [www.blm.gov/historic_bottles/pdffiles/IGPCO_BLockhart.pdf].