- Feb 3, 2009
- 41,065
- 156,626
- 🥇 Banner finds
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- Detector(s) used
- Deus, Deus 2, Minelab 3030, E-Trac,
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Coloured glass was always an eye pleasing day. One can dig black glass/dark olive green/browns till the cows come home. Each are equally nice in their own ways. Though the off colours really pop in the collection, then if they's embossed well that's another bonus. Here's the Rumford and bit of history of the man and company.
[FONT="]Benjamin Thompson, Count of Rumford, was born in Massachusetts in 1753 and taught in Concord, New Hampshire before emigrating to England. He was an inventor, and was married to the widow of Lavoiser. The Rumford Chemical Works had little to do with him, but his shillouette appears on the private die stamps the company had designed for them in 1880.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Professor Eben N. Horsford was the president of the Rumford Chemical Works. His specialty was use of phosphates in food production, and his products were not specifically intended to be proprietary medicines. One, Horsford's Acid Phosphate, was marketed as a drink, but was touted as preventing cholera, and in 1880 was required to bear a tax stamp. Private die stamps were issued on January 24, 1881 and May 1, 1883. 1,219,050 were printed, all on watermarked paper. An unknown quantity of the second delivery were left imperforate.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Benjamin Thompson, Count of Rumford, was born in Massachusetts in 1753 and taught in Concord, New Hampshire before emigrating to England. He was an inventor, and was married to the widow of Lavoiser. The Rumford Chemical Works had little to do with him, but his shillouette appears on the private die stamps the company had designed for them in 1880.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Professor Eben N. Horsford was the president of the Rumford Chemical Works. His specialty was use of phosphates in food production, and his products were not specifically intended to be proprietary medicines. One, Horsford's Acid Phosphate, was marketed as a drink, but was touted as preventing cholera, and in 1880 was required to bear a tax stamp. Private die stamps were issued on January 24, 1881 and May 1, 1883. 1,219,050 were printed, all on watermarked paper. An unknown quantity of the second delivery were left imperforate.[/FONT]
