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Thomas Cains

American glassmaker

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role in development of glassmaking

In glassware: After the War of 1812
Thomas Cains was making flint glass there in 1813. He left the firm in 1824 to found the Phoenix Glass Works in South Boston, which survived until 1870. One particular device usually associated with the Boston manufactories of this period is the guilloche, or chain,…
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