[Newspaper]
Publication: The Vermont Gazette
Bennington, VT, United States
vol. 70, no. 44, p. 2, col. 4
Patent Flint Enamel Ware.
We find the following deserving compliment to our pottery manufactory, in the Albany Atlas, and copy for the double purpose of information to our readers and tribute to Vermont genius and natural resources:
This article seems to have got into sudden and almost general demand, though it was only discovered last season and patented in November last. It is composed of Flint, Feld Spar and Quartz, without clay. It is got up in all shades,—representing Egyptian or Italian marble, Tortoise shell, Agate, &c., and manufactured into a thousand articles of ornamental and domestic use—Vases, Candelabras, door plates, jars, down to spittoons.
It is claimed to be the most durable, strongest, handsomest, cheapest and the only fire-proof ware. An outer coating of enamel, as hard, polished, and brilliantly variegated as that of the deep sea shell, gives to the commonest articles a lustre and air of beauty.
Although, as we have said, it was only, discovered last season and patented in November last, it has taken the premiums at the Fairs of the State Society, and American Institute, and has been adopted by all the Hotels, at the Capitol, State Arsenal and other public places in and about this city—and wherever else it is known it is received with like favor.
Mr. ROBERT FREEMAN, of this city, the General Agent, a gentleman of well known enterprise, is prepared to dispose of rights for the vending of this beautiful production of art, in the various counties of this and other States, on terms which will probably be found highly advantageous. The superiority of this ware must bring it into general use, making the patent a source of wealth to the inventor and those holding under him.
The ware is manufactured at Bennington, Vermont, and is the result of the research and laborious application of Mr. C. W. FENTON who, in the course of his investigations, has discovered in the mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire materials of a purity surpassing those of any other known locality, and in their combination has evinced a skill and inventive genius which reflect the highest credit upon him, and can scarcely fail to secure a reward to which first discoverers of even the most: useful productions do not often attain.
