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Sandwich Glass: A Technical Book for Collectors

Chapter 16: MISCELLANEOUS
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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.

MISCELLANEOUS

38. Bee hive medallion border—Laurel wreath border hive and nine bees.

39. Bee hive medallion border small plate with 11 honey bees above hive, fine stipple, one of the rarer plates.

A—Same with variation in border.

40. The Lyre—Large Lyre, four strings and two palms filling center of plate, border groups of rays and pointed, stippling deeply indented, bulls eye edge.

41. The Hound—Reclining gray hound with branches left and right, oak leaf border, broken by six circles, clear ground.

42. Harp with laurel wreath and seven pointed star above—a very beautiful plate. Shamrock border.

A—A four inch plate is found with small harp in center. This is of course not a true cup plate.

43. The Anchor—Similar plate with large anchor stippled ground stars and stippled triangles alternating in border.


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44. The Butterfly—A butterfly on stippled center ground, border of eight forget-me-nots on clear ground.

45. The Unhappy Marriage or double face—Two heads with inscription above “The Wedding Day”—invert the plate and the same heads are seen with distorted visage and the words above “Three Weeks After.” Border of very handsome flowers, clear ground.