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Indiana Glass Harvest Gold Carnival Wedding Bowl

08 Tuesday May 2012

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The colours just don’t show up in the photo.  This is a very attractive piece.  I would have called it a compote, although it is larger than my other compotes, until I saw the piece from Indiana Glass.  “The Harvest Gold Carnival Wedding Bowl was first sold separately as a wedding or fruit bowl. It was later packaged with the matching candle holders and sold as a console set. The candleholders were never sold separately so they can be tough to find. The gold carnival wedding bowl is a large bowl measuring 8 1/2 inches tall and 8 inches acrossed the scalloped top. It was only made in gold carnival glass. It was NOT made in blue or lime green carnival.”

I’m not sure if the name ‘wedding bowl’ implies that it was intended to be a boxed wedding gift, or if it’s simply just a name.  I found it at a Value Village and ‘had’ to add it to my collection of marigold, amber pieces.  But the size precludes adding too many  – not enough space to store them.

Pretty to look at in the sun however.


Unknown etch – could be Tiffin, Fostoria, Bryce, could be anything else

06 Sunday May 2012

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Imagine my surprise when I walked into a Value Village in Kitchener and this stem was the very first thing I spotted.  I nabbed it quickly.  It was fifty cents!!!!!  Fifty cents!!!!!  i looked for others, but no luck.  I’ve seen etches akin to this one many times.  It looks a little like Tiffin’s NE 259 or Fostoria’s Needle Etching 47 – Large Cloverleaf.  I bet there are other cloverleaf etches out there that would closely resemble this one.  The photo seems a wee fuzzy.  Hard to get the details sharp (at least it is for me).

I’ve been wanting to get my hands on one, again to see it in the ‘flesh’, but I honestly didn’t think I’d find it for fifty cents!  Nice mint vintage piece with a pretty ring – likely a champagne/high sherbert.

Heisey Basket with Butterflies and Flowers

05 Saturday May 2012

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All of my information comes from the book….The Collector’s Encyclopedia of Heisey Glass: 1925-1938 by Neila Bredehoft (published 1986) .  Ms. Bredehoft  says that Heisey began producing baskets circa 1912 and first called them ‘basket vases’ (now simply called ‘baskets’).

Most were designed to hold flowers although a few were fruit containers.

The production of baskets appears to have ceased in 1933.

This particular eight inch basket is called “Plain Hexagon” by researchers and has the Number 462 as a reference.  I assume this is the blank or shape number.  It was used for only a few Heisey cuttings. I don’t know if this cut has a name.  It has butterflies, flowers and ferns or grasses.

It is pretty, although I really only picked it up at a recent auction because I recognized the Heisey mark.  When I get organized, it goes up on the seller’s block!