09 Tuesday Feb 2016
Posted in Imperial
I am pretty confident that this is from Imperial’s line #728, called Molly, although I don’t know why.
This piece is in satin and has a pretty silver overlay.
I have a number of these servers. Pretty soon we are hosting a baby shower for my daughter-in-law (first grandbaby) 
and I will be putting these pretty pieces to work.
09 Wednesday Sep 2015
Posted in Tiffin
Been a long time since I have added to this blog. Not for the lack of new pieces to add. I have acquired a number of items over the last little while. However I have to admit that I am slowing down. Getting to a stage where I must unload more!!!! Plus the Canadian dollar is so weak compared to the US greenback that you just can’t buy anything from the US. This of course is a shame as there is always something really cool to acquire from somewhere in America.
Anyway….my guy and I went on a hot, sweaty rural ramble this past Sunday. Although it is a bit cooler today, this part of Ontario has been enjoying the heat and humidity for the last couple weeks. I don’t mind – it will be November all too soon!
In any event we went up to Bobcaygeon and Fenelon Falls. Stopped at Grr8 Finds and picked up this Emerald center satin server.
I now have several of these servers. I don’t ‘serve’ anything hardly worth eating. No sweets or little dainty sandwiches. Nonetheless these pieces interest me. Such a variety of handle shapes and plate shapes, colours and of course sizes.
10 Sunday Aug 2014
Posted in Hocking
Some months ago I didn’t own one of these center handle pieces. Now I have four! They take up an inordinate amount of space. You can’t really stack anything on them, you can’t stack them on top of each other and they are not easy to pack away!
Whine, whine whine. After all I can control my urge to purchase….or can I? Obviously not.
This particular piece is a vaseline glass server made in the 1930s by the Hocking Glass Company. This is an interesting article – Hocking’s Ring Pattern by Rosemary Trietsch – if you are interested in learning about the history of this pattern.
If you are interested in the history of the Hocking Glass Company and how it became the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation, see this article at the Anchor Hocking Glass Museum website.
I bought my handy dandy flashlight to illuminate the uranium. Works, gives the tray a nice glow to show.