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Sandwich Glass: A Technical Book for Collectors

Chapter 15: THE LOG CABIN GROUP
By Lenore Wheeler Williams
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A practical handbook for collectors that surveys the development, production, and varieties of early American pressed flint glass made in New England factories. It combines a history of local glassmakers and works with technical explanations of materials, molds, pressing methods, and the distinctions between early hand-blown and later pressed commercial wares. The author catalogs representative forms such as cup plates, salts, candlesticks, lamps, and flatware, describes colors, molds, and identifying marks, and cautions against later mass-produced imitations. Numbered illustrations and a collector’s data section support identification and recordkeeping for the serious student of early American glass.

THE LOG CABIN GROUP

32. Log cabin with words “Fort Meigs” above on clear ground, border with vine and acorns and inscription “Tippecanoe” above and “Wm. H. Harrison” below. This cup plate belongs equally in the Harrison group as it was a souvenir in the Harrison Campaign. All the log cabins were gotten out with this in view.

Uncommon.

33. Log cabin with flag—Flower border, cider barrel, and tree. The cider barrel typified Harrison’s hospitality; no chimney on cabin.

34. Log cabin with flag—No barrel—Cabin fills entire center of plate—two windows—Top only of log chimney showing. Smaller flag than No. 33, plain border.

Rare.

35. Log cabin, cider barrel; plain border; large tree in full foliage; one window. Liberty cap on top of flag pole with waving flag. Bench at base of tree.

Very rare.

36. Log cabin with a large chimney at end, cider barrel under one window, clear background, the earliest plate issued in this series. N. E. G.

Rare.

37. Log cabin with acorn border type of No. 33.

Not shown.

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