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Monthly Archives: March 2014

Hughes Cornflower Center Handled Dish on Imperial Candlewick Blank

31 Monday Mar 2014

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Candlewick, Corn Flower, Cornflower, Cut Crystal, Cut Glass, Hughes, Imperial

Hughes Cornflower Centre Handled DishI have sworn a million times that I am not going to buy any more Corn Flower, unless it is a coloured piece.  However, pieces keep following me home!

This weekend we took a trip down to the Niagara area.  Picked up a few pieces here and there.  Stopped in at Around the Block in Toronto.  What a great place!  They have a nice variety of good quality items of all kinds.  Very clean and bright and nicely arranged.  Definitely worth a visit.

This is a consignment shop with a difference.  Every month the prices of items decrease by 10%.  The price drops are shown right on the tags.  I bought this Hughes/Imperial plate and another dish which I will showcase soon.  Oh yes…a glass too.

The trouble with these center handled pieces is that they are large and correspondingly, more of a pain to store!  But….it is pretty, isn’t it?

Vintage Hobnail Milk Glass Lamp

26 Wednesday Mar 2014

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Hobnail, Lamp, Milk glass, Milkglass

Hobnail LampIsn’t this cute?  We bought this a couple summers ago when visiting my mom in Fort Erie.

The most difficult task was to find a decent lamp shade with the piece that fits onto the bulb.  You can find them, but generally they are not in the greatest shape.

I bought this shade recently at a thrift shop.  It was the right shape and colour, but it was soiled.  I decided to throw it into the clothes washer on the delicate setting.  If I had a dishwasher I would definitely have used that.Hobnail Lamp (2)

In any event, the trim along the edges came out a little worn, but it cleaned right up.

I don’t know how old this lamp is and whether it fits the definition of milk glass…but I think this is cute.  I like the way it looks against the blue wall of my home office.

Paden City Gold Spring Orchard Decanter and Cordials

22 Saturday Mar 2014

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Paden City Gold Spring Orchard Decanter

 

Update to my post of March 20, 2014…….I gather that the line is actually #211 – Spire.  I gather there is a lack of evidence to validate the line number, but that it is commonly assumed, by folks who are in the know, that this is #211, despite what my text indicates.

—————————————-My handy dandy Paden City reference tells me that this is a reverse etch that includes daisies and swallows.  I can’t determine what a ‘reverse etch’ actually is!  My not so handy dandy Glass Dictionary doesn’t have any information.  I’ll have to poke around the ‘net when I have more time.

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In any event, the etch is quite deep.  The cordials are  the #991 Penny Line blank.  The decanter is from the #215 Glades line.  The piece are gold encrusted.  I think that the gold on these pieces is likely faded from years of washing.  It is intact, but I imagine it was originally brighter.  Still very pretty.

I had a piece of Spring Orchard, a decanter from a different line, that I sold.  I was somewhat sorry as it was pretty, and different.  Must be that darned unknown reverse etching!  I think I may admire these for awhile.

Don’t know how old they are.  Paden City closed its doors in 1951.  So they are at least older than I am.  So…….they are definitely vintage!

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