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The early 1970 highball glass tumbler featuring an official gold seal of the president is a water glass design similar to the one chosen by First Lady Jackie Kennedy for use in official state occasions in the State Dining Room as part of the President's House collection. This presidential glass tumbler was manufactured and hallmarked with the stamp of the Fostoria Glass Company while part of the Morgantown Glassware Guild from 1965 until it closed in 1971 under President Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.
The vice president tumbler features the vice presidential seal used from 1948 to 1975 and has the hallmark of the Morgantown Glassware Guild stamped on the bottom. This is the glass design chosen by Jackie Kennedy as part of the White House collection under the President's House design.
The Guild was bought by the Fostoria Glass Company in 1965, but closed The Guild operations in 1971 making this vice presidential tumbler pre-1971 and sporting the earlier vice presidential seal of VP Lyndon Johnson and Spiro Agnew that some vice presidents said looked like a 'wounded quail'. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller updated the vice presidential seal in 1975 to a more robust eagle design similar to the presidential eagle, but without the surrounding stars.
The Fostoria Glass Company ceased all operations in 1986 and these proof glasses were rescued from a dumpster just before being sent to a landfill where most of the business files, prototypes and equipment eventually ended up.
