OK  another update to the original, and subsequent post.  I have discovered that this pattern is called line 2631 – “Marjorie”.  It was produced in 1905.  The piece is a double handled cracker jar with cover.

I identified it on the marvellous site – the Miami Valley Study Group of the National Cambridge Collectors, Inc.

Nice to know what it is.

Second post –

Happy Birthday to my First Born, Wonderful Daughter….read about your inheritance!………

I have left the language of my original post….but I have made a discovery.  Tonight I was looking at this piece when I noticed that there was a marking of <Near Cut> on the lid.  Turns out this is an old Cambridge piece.  This is what ArtFact says about Cambridge and this mark –

“The Cambridge Glass Company was chartered in 1873 by a group of Cambridge, Ohio, business investors. The site for a new glass factory for a National Glass Company did not begin to take shape until 1901 under the leadership of Arthur J. Bennett, a native of England who was hired to manage the new factory. The first piece of glass (a three pint pitcher) was produced in 1902. The glass produced was heavy pressed items that were based on Bennett’s designs.

The first company trademark was instituted between 1903-4 when the terms “Near Cut” were pressed in the glass. Financial troubles required refinancing — Bennett obtained sufficient to purchase the entire Cambridge Glass Company. It expanded to include another plant at Byesville Ohio that by 1917 shut down. In the 1920s a new trademark with the letter “C” enclosed in a triangle identified works made at Cambridge Glass. The firm grew successful through the 1930s to become one of the most prosperous decorative glass companies known in this country and abroad. It was closed in 1954 and sold to Imperial Glass headed by Sidney Albert of Akron, Ohio. Sales were poor after 1955 and a year later Morrison Industries Ltd. of Boston, MA. acquired the company.”

I haven’t discovered the pattern name, but I am pleased to kind of determine that it is likely considered to be a cracker barrel (like the cheese).

You just never know when you are going to find something out!

My original post……………………………………My friend Marie brought this back from England. Having magpie tendencies, I had to have it because it is so shiny.  Marie referred to it as a Biscuit Barrel, although she wasn’t really sure.  It is about 5 inches tall and 8 inches in diameter (I haven’t measured it and can’t find my tape).  Very pretty.  Someday I need to learn more about cut and pressed glass. I do not have the eye to distinguish the patterns and it isn’t marked.  Right now it is sitting in my office window picking up the light.  I like the handles very much.  Looks like an overgrown sugar bowl.