This aquamarine-colored jar, or bottle, was made at the Franklin Glass Factory in Warwick, Massachusetts, between 1812 and 1816. When the War of 1812 halted the importation of glass from England, small-scale factories, such as the Warwick factory, sprang up across New England to meet the demand. Ebenezer Hall was determined to set up a glass factory in Warwick and worked hard to make it a success but miscalculations, disasters, and poor planning combined to make the venture a complete failure and the factory closed just as the War of 1812 ended. That brought a new trade relationship with Britain, which led to a flood of inexpensive, high-quality glass. Marginal American producers like Franklin Glass could not compete. By 1819, the last of the company was liquidated, to the great loss of local investors, many of whom had mortgaged their farms to invest in the venture.