The Pitkin Glass Works Inc. - Pitkin News and Features

This is an exciting section of our site as we have many new pictures and information, For 2006, we will include archived photos of the very first excavation conducted at the site back in the 1980's with Dr. Warner and some students from CCSU. Also we will feature more photos of the excavations that have taken place from 2003 to 2005. We have many more important shards as well as a list of rare & unusal objects that include postcards depicting the ruins & pictures of some of the Pitkin decendants. Please check out the below photo album and all the pages

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Rare 16 vertical lobed inkwell attributed to Pitkin

Amazing "base"

Rare document dated 1776 signed by William Pitkin-Clerk for the Connecticut courts

Rare photo from 1899

View of the site with plots ready for the next excavation

Rick Ciralli with some middle school students at one of the scheduled excavations

More helpers discussing the next plans

FOSA members getting ready for aerial data

Swirled & Ribbed shards

An unearthed lip to a snuff jar

More shards of sunburst flasks

Important shards of a RARE GVIII-6 sunburst

Important shards of a GII-57 JPF and a GII-58 Eagle/Cornucopia 1/2 pint

Close up view of the GII-58 shard

Fragments of a Sunburst pint in a gorgeous green

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