Poplar Grove Farm

Object or Artifact: Honey Jar

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History and Details Regarding

Honey Jar

This jelly or honey jar belonged to Sarah Curtis French, whose father, James Curtis, gifted her Poplar Grove Farm as a wedding present in about 1830.

It is pressed glass, which was a new way of forming glass invented by Bakely who pioneered the method of pressing glass softened by heat into forms to make complicated shapes. This was new tech from England in 1825, and Sarah would have acquired this jar at some point after that.

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