Corning Glass Works Commemorative Ashtray in Vaseline
The Harrodsburg plant was built by Corning in 1952, very quickly becoming the world’s largest manufacturer of optical glass and ophthalmic blanks used by spectacle lens manufacturers. Seventy years later, the factory continues to operate, having transformed from production of “specialty glasses to fusion-formed LCD glass in the 1980s to Gorilla® & Willow® glasses in the 2000s,” to quote from their website.
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Paul Jones Whiskey Flask
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Labino Studio Trillium Series Vase
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