Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation is a manufacturer of glassware

Glassware

This list of glassware includes drinking vessels , tableware, such as dishes, and flatware used to set a table for eating a meal, general glass items such as vases, and glasses used in the catering industry whether made of glass or plastics such as polystyrene and...

. The Hocking Glass Company was founded in 1905 by Isaac Jacob (Ike) Collins

Isaac J. Collins

Isaac Jacob "Ike" Collins was an American businessman who founded the Anchor Hocking Corp.Born in Salisbury, Maryland, as a young man Isaac Collins moved to Lancaster, Ohio to work as a decorator at a pressed glass manufacturing company. There, he founded the Hocking Glass Company in 1905 which...

. That company merged with the AnchorCap and Closure Corporations in 1937. Anchor Hocking is primarily located in Lancaster, Ohio

Lancaster, Ohio

Lancaster is a city in Fairfield County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 38,780. It is located near the Hocking River, approximately southeast of Columbus, Ohio. It is the county seat of Fairfield County...

. (Plant #44 is located in Monaca, Pennsylvania

Monaca, Pennsylvania

Monaca is a borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States along the Ohio River, northwest of Pittsburgh. Monaca was first incorporated as Phillipsburg in 1840, and had been known by that name since the 1820s. In 1892, the name of the borough was changed to Monaca in honor of the Native...

.) The first glassware they produced as the Anchor Hocking Glass Company was Royal Ruby in 1939. They manufacture many brands of glass including:

• Royal Ruby Glass
• Forest Green Glass
• Fire King
  Fire King
  Fire-King is an Anchor Hocking brand of glassware similar to Pyrex and made of low expansion borosilicate glass and is ideal for oven use.-History:...
  
  
• Anchor Ovenware

The company was the sponsor of the radio drama

Radio drama

Radio drama is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story...

 "Casey, Crime Photographer

Casey, Crime Photographer

Casey, Crime Photographer was a media franchise, in the 1930s through the 1960s...

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