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03 Saturday Aug 2019
Posted McKee
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21 Sunday Apr 2019
Posted L.G. Wright
inDuring a recent trip to Arizona I picked up this blue creamer. I didn’t know anything about it and decided to take a chance that it was an older piece.
I have learned alot about its possible provenance although I do not definitively know its origin.
I posted the piece on the great Facebook site – Vintage Glass Identification – as I couldn’t find anything in my own resources to give me a hint as to the pattern name and history. This is a great site. Members are very eager to identify pieces and I had a response in no time flat.
I learned that the original EAPG manufacturer of this Wildflower pattern was Adams & Company of Pittsburgh. It was Adams’ pattern no. 140. When Adams merged with U.S. Glass in the late 1890s, this company likely continued to produce this pattern. I was also advised that the piece was reproduced for the L.G. Wright Company of New Martinsville, West Virginia. The Glass Encyclopedia provided some historical information about the company. The company used original molds, or purchased molds and had other companies produced the finished pieces for it. This was one of the patterns that they produced.
The website Sean George Pressed Glass & Goblets provides more history about this pattern and points out that pieces have been produced by L.G. Wright, Crystal Art Glass (Cambridge, Ohio), Summit Art Glass (Akron, Ohio) and by Mosser Glass Co. (Cambridge, Ohio).
Long story short – no idea who made this particular piece and/or when. But it is pretty.
04 Friday Jan 2019
Posted Inwold Glassworks
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Blue Glass, Colored Glass, Coloured Glass, Cream and Sugar, Czechoslovakia, Depression, European Glass
I picked up this cream and sugar with the tray recently while on a trip to the Niagara area. I was drawn to the pretty shade of blue, but didn’t know anything about the set, including its age.
I looked at a number of online sources to no avail and then posted it, with a request for an ID, on the great Everyday and Elegant Glass Forum. It only took a day before the set was identified. What a great network of glass afficionados!
Turns out that this set was made in the 1930s by a glass company called the Inwold Glassworks of Prague, Czechoslovakia. Here is a wee bit of information in its history – http://www.museumportheimka.cz/vystava/inwald-the-story-of-a-glassworks/. The line is called Perforal. No idea of the name of the colour.
I would never have found this ID on my own as it didn’t occur to me that it may be a set from Europe.