Victory Glass, Inc.,

R.E. Best, Frank Levin, and W.U. Gillespie organized Victory Glass, Inc., as a

Pennsylvania corporation on January 29, 1937, buying the assets of the Victory Glass Co. on February 1, and moving into the plant on that date. None of the stockholders had been involved with the Victory Glass Co. Virgilio Chirico – the receiver for the defunct Victory Glass Co. – was elected president, even though he owned no stock. The officers were unpaid, the directors met once a week, and they hired a manager for the plant (Walker 1952:382-384).

The new firm initially used day tanks and hand production methods it inherited from the

defunct Victory Glass Co., continuing to make the same products as its predecessor, and using the same sales outlet. But Victory Glass, Inc., quickly installed a new continuous tank, new lehr, and semiautomatic glass machines – refurbishing the entire factory – all in use by November of 1937. In addition, the plant began production of lighting fixtures and decorated glass (Walker 1952:384).

In 1938, the American Glass Review noted Victory Glass, Inc., as using one continuous

tank and four day tanks to make the same product line that was listed in 1933. In 1940, however, the product list changed to “Illuminating ware, glass lamp parts, I.E.S. shades, special mold work and crystal and color.” The following year, the listing noted that Chirico was president with J.H. Millstem [actually Millstein] as purchasing agent, and J. Sedden as factory manager – and added Glass Toys to the products. A.L Keltz was noted as vice president in 1942 (American Glass Review 1937:120; 1938:115; 1940:132; 1941:133-134;

1942:146).

On April 14, 1947, Jacob H. Millstein applied for a patent for a “Candy Containing Horn Novelty” and received Patent No. 2,490,368 on December 6, 1949. Since he did not

assign the patent, we have no way of knowing whether he made it for Victory Glass or if he was already planning on acquiring the firm. None of the earlier Victory Glass Co. or Victory Glass, Inc., products had patent dates or pending marks. We have not discovered an example of the horn.

SOURCE: Victory Glass Companies by Bill Lockhart, Bob Brown, Beau Schriever, Bill Lindsey, and Carol Serr, found online at https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/VictoryGlass.pdf