Vintage Anchor Hocking Block Optic Green Depression Glass Cups/ Saucers Set of 6

Vintage Anchor Hocking "Block Optic" Pattern Green Depression Glass Cups & Saucers Set of 6 Six saucers and six cups. Anchor Hocking Block Optic Pattern - 1929 - 1933. No chips or cracks. It was April 24, 1911. The Hocking Glass Company, named for the Hocking River that ran through Lancaster, formed just six years before, in 1905. Under the direction of its founder, Isaac J. “I.J” or “Ike” Collins, “The Hockin’,” as it was locally known, was already one of the town’s leading employers. A Collins friend from Pittsburgh named Edward Good had provided half the capital to start the company. In the late 1920s, new hires at the Hocking made thirty cents an hour. Experienced men earned 35. In 1918, the average manufacturing wage in the United States was 53 cents per hour. They took the work because Lancaster sat just at the transition from Appalachia to the plains. Many locals were poor and had come from tough farm families, or they’d been coal miners or draymen. As hard as the work was in the glass factory, and as little as they were paid, the wages were better than they could make elsewhere. Source: http://www.thehistoryreader.com/modern-history/anchor-hocking/