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Update to………Green Console Bowl with Hughes Green Corn Flower / Cornflower Cutting

12 Monday Jul 2021

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Ran into another green piece this weekend.  A little salad plate, provenance unknown.  I no longer have the console, so can’t recall the exact colour.  The photo below looks dark, but in actuality I don’t think it was dark, although I am not sure if the two pieces are the exact same shade of green.

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January 5, 2020

Corn Flower Green ConsoleI was very surprised to walk into the local St. Vincent de Paul shop to find this beautiful console bowl with the Corn Flower cutting.  I have never seen, in the wild, a piece cut with Corn Flower in any colour other than pink, hawthorne (Heisey) or the pilseners with the red bases.  Definitely never the green.

I don’t know the glass maker.   A photo of this piece shows up in Walter T. Lemiski’s book Elegant Glass with Corn Flower but does not indicate the provenance.

Very pretty.

 

New Martinsville # 4554 Janice Candle Holder / Candleholder with Hughes’ Corn Flower Cutting

19 Monday Apr 2021

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One of the best reference set purchases I’ve made was to buy the three volume set of The Glass Candlestick Book by Tom Felt and Elaine & Rich Stoer.  The first thing I do when I acquire a candlestick holder is to look for it in one of these books.  Works from the major American glass companies are included.

Volume 3 lists this piece as New Martinsville’s #4554 0- Janice.  It was originally made circa 1940-1970 in crystal and reissued later in crystal and pink.

According to the Canadian Identification & Price Guide to W.J. Hughes Corn Flower Glass by Krista A. Taylor, the Hughes’ cutting could have been carried as early as the 1930s.

There is a bit of a discrepancy between the dating of these pieces between the books.

Regardless of its age it is a pretty piece.

 

Stem with Hughes Corn Flower (I think)

07 Sunday Mar 2021

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This is a very attractive glass with it’s fancy twisted stem, the shape of the bowl and of course the cutting.

The Corn Flower cutting appears to be that of Hughes as opposed to one of his imitators.  But of course I am always open to being corrected!

I am guessing that the stem is European – imported from Czechoslovakia or Hungary perhaps.