Darner

Object Name:

Darner

Object ID:

2025.051.02

Creator:

Lyndeborough Glass Company -- Manufacturer

Place of Origin:

Lyndeborough, NH

Date:

1870-1880

Description:

Darner. Glass darner or darning ball, blown with robin's egg blue glass, made at the Lyndeborough Glass Company, South Lyndeborough, NH, c. 1870 - 1880.

Material:

Glass

Dimensions:

L-6.25 Dia-3 inches

Provenance:

Ex collection: Rhea Mansfield Knittle, pioneer collector and scholar of early American glass, Ashland, OH.
Ex collection: George S. McKearin, Hoosick Falls, NY.
Ex collection: Richard F. Upton, Concord, NH. Purchased from George S. McKearin (1959)
Ex collection: Paul C. Richards, Templeton, MA. Purchased from Richard F. Upton in 1991.
Sold in the Paul C. Richards estate auction by Collector Sales and Services (David Arman) November 1993.
Ex collection: Barry Hogan, Lancaster, PA.
Jeff and Holly Noordsy, Cornwall, VT. Purchased from them by William W. Upton, August 2025.

The Lyndeborough Glass Company incorporated in 1866 and began producing glass in 1867 in South Lyndeborough, New Hampshire. The company's products included bottles, jars, flasks, carboys, insulators, and decorative canes. It closed in 1886 but reopened under the name of the Crystal Glass Company, and operated until 1888 producing solely Puritan jars.

Credit Line:

Gift of William W. Upton in memory of Richard F. Upton

Subjects:

Glassware, Glassworkers, Glassworking, Glass industry, Glass blowing, Glass working, Socks, Stockings