Sandwich Glass: A Technical Book for Collectors — John Shaqi
Sandwich Glass: A Technical Book for CollectorsWilliams, Lenore Wheeler
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Sandwich Glass: A Technical Book for Collectors
Williams, Lenore Wheeler
Boston and Sandwich Glass Company; Glassware -- Collectors and collecting
11. Compote on standard with waterfall base—7½ inch, very rare. A. Top
view of same piece.
12. Deep dish, oval, grouved corners, 6 x 8, very rare. All-over
design of great delicacy. I consider this dish, which is one of
a pair, made for a special order in 1839, one of the finest
specimens ever produced in Sandwich glass. The detail of design
is marvelous and the shape necessitated an eight grouved mold.
13, 14C, 15, 16C are 6 inch plates two of which have cup plates to
match.
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[Illustration: PLATE XXIII]
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17, 18, 19, 20 are 6½ inch deep dishes. 20 being the sun flower design
familiar in cup plates.
21, 22 are tray shaped dishes of great brilliancy.
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[Illustration: PLATE XXIV]
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23, 24, 25, 26 are sauce dishes, period 1839.
27. Harp and grape center and 28, grape border, conventional center,
are Toddy glass plates mentioned as a type of large cup plate
and very much sought after by collectors.
A. The grape eagle, blue, in this size is very rare.
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[Illustration: PLATE XXV]
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29. Presentation piece, Crown above, three feathers and motto—“Ich
Dien.”—This is the badge on the Coat of Arms of the Prince of
Wales and was made at the time of the visit of the late Edward
VII to the U. S. in 1860.
30. Presentation piece, Gladstone, “For the Million” Imitation of
English pressing. Made for the Canadian market.
31. Early Sandwich creamer rare.
A. Opalescent.
32. Covered sweet meat jar or sugar bowl, eight sided. Gothic
treatment.
A. Blue.
B. Purple.
C. Opalescent.
33. Eight sided Jam dish, 5 inch, rose and thistle clear inset in
corners. Rose and thistle in panels of border and is beautifully
carried out in the center.
34. Jam dish, 4½ inch, deeply fluted.
A great number of 4 inch plates were made and these are becoming very
popular with collectors. These may have been “toddy plates” a large cup
plate made for use with flips as many in the author’s collection bear
signs of frictional wear.
Small slightly concave dishes resembling cup plates were made for “best
jam” or honey. The patterns in these dishes were not in the finest
designs. They were too small to be popular and larger sauce dishes were
first made at the works about 1839. The covered sweet meat jars later
used for sugar were rare (see illustration) and a really early Sandwich
cream pitcher is the delight of the collector.
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