Mosser Glass
Hand-pressed glassware made in Cambridge, Ohio since 1971
✅ Made in USA
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Where Mosser Glass products are made
Cambridge, Ohio
Mosser Glass presses its glassware at its Cambridge, Ohio plant, which is open to the public alongside a retail showroom. Factory tours are the simplest possible proof that the making happens where the company says it does.
Hand-pressed, not imported
Glass is pressed into moulds by hand rather than mass-produced on automated lines, which is why the catalog runs to cake stands, animals, tumblers and vintage-inspired shapes that no high-volume line would bother tooling for.
Its own moulds and archives
Mosser Glass builds custom moulds and produces designs acquired from closed American glass houses including Viking and L.G. Wright, keeping shapes in production that would otherwise have disappeared entirely.
Mosser Glass describes itself as a family-owned business creating premium hand-pressed, lead-free glassware in Cambridge, Ohio, and it markets its work under an American Craftsmanship banner. The company is the official licensed manufacturer of Ohio State University glassware. Mosser Glass does not publish a separate per-item country-of-origin statement, so this profile rests on its Cambridge plant being its manufacturing operation — a single-facility glass house with public factory tours. Check the individual listing if origin matters to you on a specific item.
The story
Cambridge, Ohio was a glass town. Orie Mosser worked at Cambridge Glass, and his son Thomas began there as a teenager, learning the trade from the bottom up. When Cambridge Glass closed in 1954, that trade could have simply ended with it.
Tom Mosser decided to continue in the glass business and build a company of his own. In 1959 he was finally able to begin manufacturing glassware — in an abandoned chicken coop.
In 1971 he established Mosser Glass with a product line that blended new designs with timeless classics acquired from Viking, L.G. Wright and other American glass houses that had shut their doors. That decision is why a number of historic American glass patterns are still in production today.
Mosser Glass has stayed family-owned and stayed in Cambridge. It runs a retail showroom and offers factory tours, blending vintage-inspired designs with modern innovation.
Why they matter
American pressed glass was once a major domestic industry, concentrated in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Nearly all of it is gone. The plants closed, the moulds were scrapped or sold, and the skills — which are learned on the floor, not in a classroom — went with them.
Mosser Glass matters because it is one of the few places those skills still get practiced daily and passed on. It also literally preserves the industry’s tooling, keeping patterns from Viking and L.G. Wright alive rather than letting them become auction-house curiosities.
For a buyer, that means a cake stand or a tumbler that was pressed by hand in Ohio by someone who learned from someone who learned at Cambridge Glass. That chain is not reproducible by an importer, and once it breaks it does not come back.
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Mosser Glass made?
At the company’s plant in Cambridge, Ohio, which is open for factory tours alongside a retail showroom.
When was Mosser Glass founded?
Thomas Mosser established Mosser Glass in 1971, after beginning glass manufacturing in 1959 in an abandoned chicken coop following the closure of Cambridge Glass in 1954.
Is Mosser Glass lead-free?
Yes. The company states its glassware is lead and cadmium free.
Why do Mosser Glass patterns look vintage?
Because many of them are. The company acquired designs from closed American glass houses including Viking and L.G. Wright and keeps them in production alongside its own new work.