Four stacked “agate ware” cups that are tied together at the handles. A paper label on the bottom cup reads, “This stack Camp Cups used at the 50^th Gettysburg Encampment”.  These cups were used by veterans during the 1913 Gettysburg reunion.

Cups are 3 ¼” in diameter at mouth and 2 ¾” tall with a small finger-ring handle. Enameled iron and marked in blue on bottom “EXTRA AGATE / L & G Mfg. Co. / NICKLE STEEL WARE”. Cups all have scattered small chips to enamel on the rims and bottoms; otherwise nice shape.

Two French immigrants, Charles Lalance and Florian Grosjean formed the L&G Manufacturing Company, and started producing porcelain enamel covered iron cookware between 1863 and 1870 - one of the first companies in the United States to do so. Before long, Lalance and Grosjean opened their doors in Woodhaven New York, located in south west Queens. The two helped to turn a farm community into a manufacturing town employing over 2,100 people on an eleven acre lot. The company manufactured various products, and was well known for improving the process of tin stamping. L&G Manufacturing also made mess kits for the Spanish-American War.

Grosjean managed the factory and had several company houses built to accommodate French workers who immigrated to work in his company. Houses were built in all of the communities hosting an L & G factory - Chicago, Boston, and Harrisburg.

L & G Manufacturing would later become the world's leader in tin stamping, holding that title for almost a century. After World War II sales began to drop and the factory closed in 1955. L & G Manufacturing made mess kits for the Spanish-American War.

All L & G agate ware has a burned stamp on the bottom in blue while other companies at the time used stickers that eventually wore off.  [jet]

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