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Update to ……Cambridge Amber Console Bowl #856 – Decagon with Etch #748 – Lorna

08 Wednesday Dec 2021

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Surprises continue with a recent local buy of this pretty candle stick.  This is line #627 or #3400/627 produced circa 1927-1936.

I always like the etches that have names and wonder how many people collect their ‘namesakes’!

 

 

 

 

 

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April 2, 2016

Cambridge Lorna Console (2)My man came home with this from the Courtice Flea Market.  It is a surprising find as we don’t see alot of Cambridge glass locally.  Which of course is our loss!

I had never seen any pieces with this particular etch.  It is a big etch and I gather can be found on a number of lines, and in different colours.

This piece is marked with the Cambridge “C” in a triangle.

Update to…………….Cambridge Glass Mayonnaise Dish with Ladle in Helio

06 Wednesday Oct 2021

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It has been a very long time since I have posted on this blog.  In the interim I have had a trip to the east coast of Canada and made a number of short trips.  Along the way I have picked up a few new things.  Not alot as I am trying to cut back on my inventory for my shops as well as for my own collections.

Nonetheless I still keep my peepers peeped.

I have long sold the bowl and ladle combo.  Imagine my surprise when I saw the same bowl, this time with the underplate, in a Salvation Army thrift shop in my hometown of Fort Erie.  No ladle this time.

I always wonder how pieces end up where they do.

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August 11, 2015

Cambridge Helio Bowl (1)

This weekend we went out to Orono where the annual antiques fair was held.  I picked up a number of pieces including this pretty opaque purple (Cambridge called it Helio) dish.  I was very surprised to find my first piece of Helio in this little Ontario town.  I asked the vendor if she recalled where she had found it, but she did not.

I have only seen Helio online.  I gather that there are variations in the tone of purple.  This is a fairly dark piece.  I read in the reference book – Colors in Cambridge Glass II – that Helio was introduced in January 1923 and was likely only produced for no more than two years.

I believe this set to be the mayonnaise, with ladle, from line #169.

Update to……Cambridge 3-lite Candelabrum no. 638 with Apple Blossom etch

27 Thursday Aug 2020

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Here’s another pair of Cambridge candlestick holders in Willow.  These are from line no. 627 – the Decagon line and are decorated with etch # 731 – the lovely Rosalie etch. The edge of the cup and the rim of the base were/are edged in gold

Such a pretty colour and etch.

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October 6, 2019

I was scrolling back through the last few items that I have posted and was struck by the pretty colours.  This piece is no different.

It is a very pretty pastel blue.  The book Colors in Cambridge Glass II by the National Cambridge Collectors, Inc. provides some history on this shade – Willow Blue.

The authors state (pg. 50) that the colour was introduced in the summer of 1928.  They also comment that “…..may confuse Willow Blue with Moonlight since both are transparent light blues.  For the most part they can be distinguished by the blank as there is no overlapping of colors.  Pieces from Decagon, Round, 3400 and other 1920s and early to mid-1930s lines will be in Willow Blue, while Moonlight was used primarily with the Caprice and Gyro lines.  The one area of overlap was in the Everglade line where early pieces were in Willow Blue and some later production did utilize Moonlight.”

The authors further state that the name Willow Blue was discontinued in the summer of 1933 and then became known as Eleanor Blue.

I also learned that the blue shade called Moonlight is Moonlight NOT Moonlight Blue.