Baker & Cutting Glass Works
History
Augustus Baker and Francis Cutting partnered in 1858 to develop the first glass works on the west coast. Their primary concern was pickle bottles to support their pickle warehouse, but they also experimented with liquor, soda, and medicine bottles. In addition to food and spirits bottles, they manufactured glass insulators for the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Company. The most enduring testament to their short run is the embossed Baker & Cutting pickle bottle found in nearly every color of the rainbow from dark amber to aqua. To this day only one intact example of this infamous bottle is known to exist in a light green coloration. Each broken example of any Baker & Cutting glass product typically comes in exceptionally crude glass full of foamy swirls, sloppy slag, and wild colors. By February of 1860 Baker & Cutting parted ways, but Cutting attempted to continue the glass works alone. Advanced western bottle diggers have all dug broken examples of the Baker & Cutting pickles, many with very thick and strong looking glass. It is still a mystery how hundreds of broken examples could be dug with only one intact example after 70 years of prospecting on the west coast. Rest assured, another example of this bottle will someday surface.