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Flint Enamel Ware

1851                Address Unknown, Benningham, New Hampshire.

1851 March 27.  National Eagle.  (Claremont, New Hampshire.)  March 27, 1851, Vol. XVI, No. XXIV, P. 1.

Flint Enamel Ware.  Some ten or fifteen years ago, Mr. Fenton a manufacturer of Fire Brick, &c., at Benningham, Vt., commenced a course of experiments on the liquefaction by heat and intermingling in various proportions, of the flint quartz, &c., used in his business…

The Flint Enamel Ware, though especially prized by us for its capacity to supersede the enameled wares now used for milk pans, stew pans, coffee-urns, &c., is intended to subserve far wider circle of uses.  Among the articles into which it has already been fashioned are water jugs, stove-urns, mantel and other parlor ornaments, lamps, and candlesticks, table-slabs, door-plates, door-knobs, block letters, daguerreotype frames, inkstands, pitchers, wash-bowls, bathing-tubs, spittoons, &c., &c.