04 Thursday Jun 2015
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This piece was signed so it wasn’t difficult to identify the maker, and I knew the cutting of course. But I have had no luck identifying the line number for the shape.
I have two Corn Flower/Cornflower references and neither show this shape. No one at the Elegant and Everyday Glass Forum responded to my query either. Must not be a common line.
I guess it doesn’t really matter, but inquiring minds like to know these things!
05 Saturday Jul 2014
Posted in Hughes
I don’t know why I keep picking up pieces of Corn Flower….but I do. I don’t know who made these tumblers, but they join my collection.
Original post of February 9, 2014
I am always excited to find one of my pieces in a book. If it’s in a book it must be true! (saith the old fashioned librarian) Tee hee.
These pieces are very common – see them all over the place! Crimped edge bud vase. This was cut by the Hughes Company. Krista Taylor – Canadian Identification & Price Guide to W.J. Hughes Corn Flower (neat book) – indicates that the blanks were produced by the Louie Glass Company and West Virginia Glass. Her sources were a 1951 company catalogue and a 1981 catalogue.
In 1951 the vase cost $1.00. In 1981 the price was $7.50. I can’t recall what I paid for it!
31 Monday Mar 2014
Posted in Hughes
I 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?