#ball-brothers
3 articles · 4 raw sources · 4 inventory
How Ball Brothers took Three Rivers Glass, told through three procedural accounts: Tips' own story (a San Antonio attorney hired to secure RFC-loan priority secretly served Ball, w…
The popular account (Ball acquired the factory in 1937, closed 1938) collapses a more eventful sequence: recurring short shutdowns for maintenance/mechanization through the 1920s-3…
A commercial glassware manufacturer that operated in Three Rivers, Texas from 1922 to 1938, founded by Charles R. Tips and built on local sand, natural gas, and machinery worked ar…
Inventory
Glass manufacturer of Muncie, Indiana, one of the largest commercial glass producers in the U.S. at the time. Foreclosed on Three Rivers Glass Company's mortgage notes in December …
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Former tank supervisor for Ball Glass Corporation at the Three Rivers plant; subject of a September 9, 1938 reference letter praising his three years of service and thorough unders…
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San Antonio attorney, paid $500 by Three Rivers Glass to secure a Reconstruction Finance Corporation loan condition in 1936. Secretly already representing Ball Brothers Glass Compa…
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No bottling location indicated. Suggested collector price: $35.00-$40.00 — among the highest in the standard catalog. Notable because it bears BOTH the '3 Rivers' mark and the 'Bal…
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Raw sources
- Three Rivers Glass Company — Homepage · 2026-07-24
- Three Rivers Glass Company — About Page · 2026-07-25
- Kevin Mackey — Corrections & Notes on Three Rivers Glass History (email) · 2026-07-24
- Three Rivers Glass Co. — Encyclopedia of Manufacturer's Marks on Glass Containers (Bill Lockhart, Beau Schriever, Bob Brown, Bill Lindsey & Carol Serr, Bottle Research Group, 2019) · 2026-07-26