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<p>[QUOTE="Cherryhill, post: 31458, member: 70"]<i>John Bryce joined with former Bryce salesman John B. Higbee to form Bryce, Higbee & Co. which lasted until the factory was destroyed by flood in 1907. Higbee continued on as John B. Higbee Glass Company in Bridgeville, PA until 1918.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Quoted from the site you linked to.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bryce Higbee did not in any way make the same wares as Bryce Bros. Nor did they make any colors during the 1890-1900 period. The colors that Bryce Higbee made were made during the mid 1880s. The toothpick under discussion was made in blue and amber, in the 1880s, but not that color of blue, a blue often called Sapphire blue. </p><p><br /></p><p>Accept that you could have purchased something represented as old but was really newer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cherryhill, post: 31458, member: 70"][I]John Bryce joined with former Bryce salesman John B. Higbee to form Bryce, Higbee & Co. which lasted until the factory was destroyed by flood in 1907. Higbee continued on as John B. Higbee Glass Company in Bridgeville, PA until 1918.[/I] Quoted from the site you linked to. Bryce Higbee did not in any way make the same wares as Bryce Bros. Nor did they make any colors during the 1890-1900 period. The colors that Bryce Higbee made were made during the mid 1880s. The toothpick under discussion was made in blue and amber, in the 1880s, but not that color of blue, a blue often called Sapphire blue. Accept that you could have purchased something represented as old but was really newer.[/QUOTE]
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