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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.
Steve said:
Found your post via a Google image search. We found a set of four of this pattern. Did you ever determine the pattern name for this piece?
d.b. said:
Hi – no. What I have found out over the years that many glass companies created this basic etch. The only way to determine a possible manufacturer is to identify the shape of the glass (the line or blank). My piece is pretty ordinary. Any company could have made it. If your blank is unique perhaps it can be identified. I long gave up trying to identify the early needle etches. So many of them cannot be conclusively identified.
Thanks for the comment.
cheers
d.b.