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Mikasa Tea Rose / Tearose Champagne Flutes

05 Friday Feb 2021

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Champagne, Etched Flute, Floral Etch, Tea Rose, Tearose

This stem is not ordinarily one I would pick up.  But every so often my husband encourages me to buy something and I generally crack.

I have had them for so long that I can’t even recall where they were purchased.

It took me awhile to ID these stems.  Mikasa – Tea Rose/Tearose produced between 1986 and 1990.

 

Greensburg Glass Works Elephant Powder Jar

19 Saturday Dec 2020

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Animal, Elephant, Powder jar

A pink one.


 

 

March 25, 2012

I was out in Orono at a shop when I saw this powder jar.  I recalled seeing it (or so I thought ) in one of my books.  As it turns out, I was thinking about another style, called Carousel, by the same company.  This satin frosted green powder jar was made by Greensburg Glass Works (bought out by the L.E. Smith Company).  I’m thinking that it is a Depression piece.  You can still put powder, or anything else in it.  It’s a pretty pale satin, or frosted, pale green.  I’ve read that the clear pieces are harder to find.  I’ve seen this with the elephant’s trunk raised, and in a few different colours, online.  I don’t know if I will put anything in it.  Right now it’s gracing my pine blanket box in the living room.  In the last month I’ve acquired three powder jars.  I think that’s enough.

When I bought it the salesman told me that it is Vaseline glass.  Vaseline glass, as defined by the Vaseline Collectors Club is “Vaseline Glass is a particular color of yellow-green glass that is made by adding 2% Uranium Dioxide to the ingredients when the glass formula is made.”  The presence of the uranium dioxide can be verified by putting your glass piece beneath a black light.  I haven’t done that yet.

If you want to see what this looks like, check out the images at the website of 1st.Glass.

Adams and Company ‘Cottage’ Creamer

05 Wednesday Aug 2020

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Antique Glass, Cottage, Creamer, Dinner Bell, EAPG, Fine Cut, Pattern Glass

I don’t usually pick up EAPG pieces but I was taken by the hands.  I thought they were pretty cool.

Given the hands, it wasn’t too difficult to track down the provenance of this creamer.

From the website of the Early American Pattern Glass Society I learned that this piece was made by Adams & Company  of Pittsburgh which operated from 1861-1891.  This line was introduced in 1887.

While ‘Cottage’ is the original name, the line is also known by: ‘Dinner Bell’; and, ‘Fine Cut Band’.

Given that this piece is more than 120 years old I am astonished by its condition.  No chips or nicks – just some surface scratching.

 

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