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Update to – Fostoria Amber Candlestick Holder – Etch 275 – Vesper

29 Friday Apr 2016

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Fostoria Vesper (2)I have neglected my poor little blog.  Not for lack of items to profile, but because of work, gardening (kind of – still cold here in Ontario), volunteer stuff, but…mainly because of my new first grandson – a/k/a Mr. Adorable.

However I have a few minutes and wanted to post an addition to this pattern.

I am assuming that this is the water goblet.  It stands 7 1/4 inches tall with an opening of 3 1/2 inches.  Medium to wide optic.

Replacements.com identifies this as stem #5093.

Very pretty.

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Original post – March 15, 2015

Fostoria Vesper Candlestick (1)Isn’t this pretty?  A deep, lovely amber colour with an intricate etch.  I only have the one unfortunately.Fostoria Vesper Candlestick (3)

This is etch #275 – Vesper in line #2324.  Replacements.com has it produced from 1928-1933.

Unknown Etch – Could this be Baccarat?

15 Friday Apr 2016

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001I was in Denver recently. It is a beautiful city set in beautiful surroundings.  There is a strip of antique stores on South Broadway and the area is coined “Antiques Row”.  I trolled the shops but didn’t buy any new pieces of glass.

However….I have recently been thinking about this stem.  I came across a pattern that resembled this particular etch at Replacements.com awhile back when I was searching for an identification for another piece.  It is what they are calling BAC61 by Baccarat.  I’ve gone back and forth on the etch for ages.  The blank is not the same, but the designs are very close.  I don’t have the glass at hand to compare as it is likely in a box in the garage.  But they do look very similar.

Patterns always look slightly different on differing shapes of course.  But…..perhaps this piece is no longer an unknown.

Original post – April 6, 2012

002 (4)I’ve never seen this etch before.  I picked this single glass up recently.  The bowl is small – likely a sherry, but it is still tall.  It has a very attractive stem.  I know I’ve seen the stem before, but just can’t place the company.  It kind of reminds me of stems that I have that are imports from Europe.  I’d love to hear from someone about the provenance.

Anchor Hocking Fire-King Devilled Egg Tray – Delphite

26 Saturday Mar 2016

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IMG_3560It seems appropriate to highlight this devilled egg tray over the weekend where eggs, albeit chocolate, are on the minds of lots of little ones.  I have a couple of these trays – one in peach lustre and this one in the delphite – and I have often marveled at the concept of a separate tray for eggs!  Although I must admit that it looks nice on the table with eggs on it!

I bought the book – Delphite & Jadite by Joe Keller & David Ross and learned a few interesting things:

  1.  That the opaque pieces of delphite/delfite/chaline are more expensive to collect, and harder to find than jadite, which I thought was expensive enough!
  2. Delphite was first introduced by McKee in the late 1920s.
  3. There are a number of distinct colours with chaline being a lighter, more vibrant shade of blue.
  4. Anchor Hocking’s pieces, produced under the Fire-King lines in the 1950s and 1960s were made in turquoise blue and azurite.  Azurite is a very pale blue which looks almost white in tint.IMG_3561

This tray is obviously Anchor Hocking’s turquoise.

This is a great book with lots of illustrations.  There are many pieces in both colours that I have never seen.

I love the fact that the bottom of the tray, although not seen when in use, has been so attractively fashioned.