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Update – Cambridge Rose Point NOT Tiffin Cherokee Rose Handled Cake Plate

28 Wednesday Dec 2016

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I haven’t looked at this listing for a long time.  But now that I am looking at the photo I think that I misnamed it originally.  I think that the piece is from Cambridge Glass with etch Rose Point.

I no longer have the piece to verify the ID, but I think Rose Point is the better bet.

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Original Listing – May 24, 2012

I’ve a number of pieces of this pattern – water goblets, one champagne stem, and various serving pieces.  I bought this at an auction in Brighton with the other serving pieces.

I can’t find this particular dish online, but I am guessing that it is a handled cake plate.  It has a one inch base, so it is likely for cakes or cookies.  These pieces are pretty, but they take up so much storage room.  Right now this one lives in a cedar chest with other pieces (and other collectible stuff) that have no public showing.

Off to Jamaica – yippie!

02 Friday Dec 2016

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Started to write this a week ago. Don’t know why I didn’t finish the post.  Have been in Jamaica already for 4 days.  Other than day to day tableware, haven’t seen any glass. No surprise I guess.  Back home and back to my glass stash next week.

Green Central Glass Compote, Line 2005

21 Monday Nov 2016

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green-etched-compoteIsn’t this a pretty colour?  A very deep, rich green.  I don’t know if it has a more descriptive name for this particular tint.

I don’t know the name of the etch.  I have to take a clearer photo of it and repost on the  Elegant & Everyday Glass Forum.

According to my only book on Central – Central Glass Works: the Depression Era by Tim Schmidt – line 2005 came in many pieces of tableware and in many colours. Rose, amber, orchid tints and crystal, and gold encrusted are examples.green-etched-compote2

This piece is 7 inches across and stands six inches.  The stem has nine lobes and it was moulded in three pieces.

Central Glass closed its doors in 1939, so the piece predates this time and according to Mr. Schmidt was observed in a 1928 catalog.