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Update to Green Diamond Glass-Ware or Fenton Swan Bon Bon

12 Sunday Jan 2014

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Fenton Swan (4)A recent purchase.

This is likely the Fenton reissue. Pretty in pink.

 

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October 8, 2012 Posting

Swan 3I bought this pretty green piece with the swan handles yesterday in Colborne.  Didn’t know anything about it, but figured that my mom will like it as she collects swans.

At the Elegant and Everyday Glass Forum online gallery I found my swan.  It is identified as a piece of Diamond Glass-Ware.  The description mentioned that Fenton later acquired the molds for the blank.  I have posted a question  as to how to distinguish the Diamond pieces from Fenton pieces.  I’ll see if I receive any information.

I’d not even heard of Diamond Glass-Ware before so I turned to the Glass Lover’s Database for some information.  This is what I found”

“Diamond Glass-Ware Company

Dugan-Diamond Glass Company. Dugan Glass begins its history as the Indiana Glass Company, operating from Indiana, Pennsylvania, from 1892 to 1896.

In 1896 Harry Northwood, accompanied by Samuel Dugan and his three sons (Thomas E.A., Alfred and Samuel Jr.), took over the company, which changed its name to Northwood.

From 1900 to 1903 it was known as the National Glass Company, under the direction of Harry Bastow and Thomas E.A. Dugan.

From 1904 to 1909, it was called the Dugan Glass Company, creating the Diamond-D mark for some of its pressed ware, most notably, Carnival glass.

Finally, from 1913 to its closing in 1931 due to a plant fire, it was known as the Diamond Glass Company.”

This is a pretty piece regardless of who has made it.  Hope my mom likes it.

 

Libbey Old Crow Cocktail Glass

18 Sunday Nov 2012

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I picked up two of these stems at a local thrift shop.  Ordinarily I would never buy anything that was marked with a message, but I knew I had seen the bird stems before and I wanted to identify them.

This is what I read on a couple of online posts.  “Old Crow Cocktail Stems were made by Libbey for the Kentucky’s Old Crow Distillery, maker of Old Crow Bourbon.” There’s lots of information online about the Distillery.  Check out the listing at Abandoned.  Abandoned itself looks like an interesting website.  It bills itself as:

“…….a resource that provides access to thousands of photographs and countless locations across the United States that are abandoned, endangered, active and demolished. From pure silk mills to World War II-era ammunition plants to simple, well-crafted residences, Abandoned aims to document that of which is being forgotten.”

Always something to learn!

Pink Cow on Nest

06 Saturday Oct 2012

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I’ve seen these cows online in pink and clear glass.  I don’t know anything about it but this is what the Heisey Museum says:

“Cow on a Nest” was made in Taiwan and sold by A. A. Importing of St. Louis. It has what some people have mistaken to be the Heisey Diamond H on the bottom, but the mark can best be described as an H in a square turned on its corner.  This item was never made by Heisey in any shape, size or color, and the quality of glass is quite poor when compared to Heisey glassware.  Several glass companies in the U.S. did and still do make items like this”

I didn’t even know that this was “supposed” to be a piece of Heisey.  My piece doesn’t have any markings.

I was interested in the company referenced – A.A. Importing.  They are active and sell  antique reproductions, giftware, and furniture items  to retail shops and other businesses.

I have no idea of the back story of my little cow, but it is pretty cute.  Fits in well with my chickens.  I think I need to get a bunny too!