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Originally Posted by bgadow
The urban legend (which may be true?) is that when Hoffman started out he got ahold of a bunch of war surplus green glass at a very low price. Sounds good, at least!
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That's the story I heard too, and it came from an old retired Hoffman engineer I met in the 1980s. The first batch of green glass seemed to sell the sets, and they ordered more, until it got to be "old tech-looking". I think they used it through '52 or so, then went to clear glass.
Charles