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Update to ……Fostoria Candlestick Holder with the Beverly Etch

03 Thursday Sep 2020

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Amber Glass, Candle Holder, Candleholder, Candlestick Holder, Cocktail Glasses, Colored Glass, Coloured Glass, Plate Etched

Line #5097 (dig those spiralled stems) cocktail glasses with the Beverly Etch.

 


August 30, 2020

This colour of this candlestick holder a rich amber.  Very compelling.

It was produced by the Fostoria Glass Company between 1924-1953.

The pattern is line #2324 and the etch is #276 Beverly.

I love these intricate etches.

Fenton Line #100 Topaz Three Legged Bowl

29 Saturday Aug 2020

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Bowl, Colored Glass, Coloured Glass, Line 100, Opalescent Glass, Ring, Ringed, Rings, Topaz Glass, Vaseline Glass, Yellow Glass

This little bowl has a very pretty colour.  I don’t know Fenton’s colour chart at all, but my understanding that this is their colour Topaz.  I have this great book – Colors & Patterns of Depression Era Glassware by Doris Yeske & Lyle Fokken – which refers to Fostoria’s ‘yellow’ glass being called ‘Topaz’.

In fact, Fenton is a company that is not well represented in my collections, or purchases.  Don’t know why.  I tend to lean toward Heisey, Cambridge or Fostoria glass lines and etches.

The brightness of the colour, and the opalescence around the rim caught my eye.  However the pattern is pretty too.  The photos may not show this well – but there are rings in the glass.  I don’t know if the pattern was named “Ring’ or ‘Rings’ or ‘Ringed’ by Fenton but I see online that it is often referred to by one of those names.

This piece does glow brightly under a blacklight.  These bright green pieces are often referred to as Vaseline glass.

The Encyclopedia of Glass by Mark Pickvet defines ‘Vaseline Glass’ as follows (p. 269):

“Glass made with a small amount of uranium oxide (usually 1-2%) that imparts a light greenish-yellow color……Vaseline glass was first made by the Romans; however it was not used in glass production in any quantity until the mid-nineteenth century.  The term ‘Vaseline’ was not used until about 1937.  Note that the English usually refer to Vaseline glass as ‘Lemonescent’ while it has also been called canary, yellow, uranium, topaz, magic, Canaria, Chameleon, Anna Yelloow, Annagrun, and Lenora Green.’

Update to……Cambridge 3-lite Candelabrum no. 638 with Apple Blossom etch

27 Thursday Aug 2020

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Blue Glass, Candelabrum, Candle Holder, Candleholder, Candlestick Holder, Colored Glass, Coloured Glass, Decagon, Rosalie, Willow Blue

Here’s another pair of Cambridge candlestick holders in Willow.  These are from line no. 627 – the Decagon line and are decorated with etch # 731 – the lovely Rosalie etch. The edge of the cup and the rim of the base were/are edged in gold

Such a pretty colour and etch.

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October 6, 2019

I was scrolling back through the last few items that I have posted and was struck by the pretty colours.  This piece is no different.

It is a very pretty pastel blue.  The book Colors in Cambridge Glass II by the National Cambridge Collectors, Inc. provides some history on this shade – Willow Blue.

The authors state (pg. 50) that the colour was introduced in the summer of 1928.  They also comment that “…..may confuse Willow Blue with Moonlight since both are transparent light blues.  For the most part they can be distinguished by the blank as there is no overlapping of colors.  Pieces from Decagon, Round, 3400 and other 1920s and early to mid-1930s lines will be in Willow Blue, while Moonlight was used primarily with the Caprice and Gyro lines.  The one area of overlap was in the Everglade line where early pieces were in Willow Blue and some later production did utilize Moonlight.”

The authors further state that the name Willow Blue was discontinued in the summer of 1933 and then became known as Eleanor Blue.

I also learned that the blue shade called Moonlight is Moonlight NOT Moonlight Blue.

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