02 Monday Feb 2015
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I don’t have a great deal of “Made in Canada” glass, but I couldn’t resist this at a local auction.
There were a number of Canadian companies that produced pressed glass with a Maple Leaf motif. This neat piece even has a leaf on the finial.
This piece is likely over 100 years old. Do you think it is called “ECPG” – Early Canadian Pressed Glass? Doesn’t have the same ring as “EAPG” – Early American Pressed Glass.
02 Saturday Mar 2013
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The last (for now) of my cut pieces. I rarely use butter – we are margarine people. But at holiday time I like to have butter. I used to have a very pretty pinwheel dish that had belonged to my mother-in-law, but I gave it to my son. He has an appreciation for fine glass and vintage ‘stuff’, although I seem to acquire “manly” things for him – clocks, radios, cameras.
I cannot remember where I acquired this piece, and I’m not even sure that the top and bottom are a match. But…..I like them in any event.
02 Monday Jul 2012
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It’s been ages since I’ve posted anything. I simply ran out of things to write about. I do have some odds and sods of glass and crystal around that I haven’t featured, but they are kind of ‘meh’. Nothing to share.
At the same time I 
decided that I really have to stop buying stuff. I am running out of room and I’m not even selling anything to make space. It’s summer and I’d rather be in my garden!
Nonetheless we are off to Tennessee on a road trip this month and I plan to stop by the Heisey Museum in Newark, Ohio. Looking forward to that!
I did pick this pretty little piece up at an auction on Friday. My resolve to stick to a budget, and NOT buy things, went to heck, when I got this (actually I bought two) for $7.00 each. I have some pieces of the Madrid, but not in the blue. The blue seems less 
common, as does this piece. I’ve seen it online as a butter OR cheese dish -who knows?
The blue is very summery and I have one stashed away on a white shelf, with a million of other pieces, and one decorating my pine box.
Pieces to augment the ‘blue’ collection.