{"id":5159,"date":"2019-04-28T07:39:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T11:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=5159"},"modified":"2019-05-02T06:45:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T10:45:38","slug":"aluminum-tray-to-match-hughes-corn-flower-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=5159","title":{"rendered":"Aluminum Tray to Match Hughes&#8217; Corn Flower Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?attachment_id=5158\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5158\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5158\" src=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Silhouette-Corn-Flower-Tidbit-Tray-2-Copy-805x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Silhouette-Corn-Flower-Tidbit-Tray-2-Copy-805x1024.jpg 805w, https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Silhouette-Corn-Flower-Tidbit-Tray-2-Copy-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Silhouette-Corn-Flower-Tidbit-Tray-2-Copy-768x977.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/a>I was surprised when I came across this piece.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t know anything about it, but thought that it has to be related to the Corn Flower cutting.<\/p>\n<p>Krista Taylor&#8217;s Canadian Identification &amp; Price Guide to Corn Flower Glass (2003) provides some interesting information:<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Aluminum Products of Scarborough, ON approached Hughes in 1961 and an exclusive arrangement was made to design and produce trays with the Corn Flower pattern in aluminum.\u00a0 On February 23, 1962 the first trays were sold.\u00a0 They were produced until 2982 and were sold out by November of 1984.<\/p>\n<p>I have only seen two and the other was silver in colour without the blue powder (?) coating\/paint.<\/p>\n<p>The label says &#8216;Silhouette&#8217;.\u00a0 Ms. Taylor reports that early boxes also had this name on it, so I can only assume this was a line name.<a href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?attachment_id=5160\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5160\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5160\" src=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Silhouette-Corn-Flower-Tidbit-Tray-9-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Silhouette-Corn-Flower-Tidbit-Tray-9-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Silhouette-Corn-Flower-Tidbit-Tray-9-768x552.jpg 768w, https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Silhouette-Corn-Flower-Tidbit-Tray-9-1024x736.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pretty neat piece and I think a great compliment to glass cut with this pattern.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=5159\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised when I came across this piece.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t know anything about it, but thought that it has &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=5159\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,609],"tags":[610,236,206,611],"class_list":["post-5159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hughes","category-supreme-aluminum-products","tag-aluminum-tray","tag-corn-flower","tag-cornflower","tag-tidbit-tray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}