Vtg PPG Pen Desk Set Pgh Plate Glass Executive Desktop Windshield Display Mini

Vtg PPG Pen Desk Set Pgh Plate Glass Executive Desktop Windshield Display Mini! Great Desktop Piece, custom made mini windshield to display the products!! Dont think it was ever used! Should probably be in a museum......... Gussing this is from the 60's to 70's. Some info of the company for those of you that dont know.. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company was founded in 1883 by Captain John Baptiste Ford. About 20 miles north of Pittsburgh along the Allegheny River. , PPG soon became the United States' first commercially successful producer of high-quality, thick flat glass. PPG was also the world's first plate glass plant to power its furnaces with locally produced natural gas.

An innovation which rapidly stimulated widespread industrial use of the cleaner-burning fuel. By 1900, known as the "Glass Trust", it included 10 plants, had a 65 percent share of the U. Plate glass market, and had become the nation's second largest producer of paint. Today, known as PPG Industries, the company is a multibillion-dollar, Fortune 500.

Corporation with 150 manufacturing locations around the world. Pitcairn served as a director of PPG from its start, its president from 1897 to 1905, and chairman of the board from 1894 until his death. On 19 December 1968 the company changed its name to PPG Industries, Inc.

To show its diverse offerings. In the mid-1980s, Cipisa, a Spanish paint company was acquired and renamed PPG Ibérica. The CEO of Cipisa, Pere Nadal Carres became CEO of PPG Ibérica. In 1990 PPG founded Transitions Optical. As a joint venture with Essilor.

This item is in the category "Collectibles\Pens & Writing Instruments\Pen Accessories\Other Collectible Pen Accs". The seller is "cyclewarehouse" and is located in this country: US.

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