The author believes there were made during the first period many large dishes for table use to match the cup plates. These are necessarily rare as such objects were more expensive and more liable to breakage. To illustrate we have given specimens the additional designation of C when there is a cup plate of corresponding design and have affixed the measurements. The following dishes are rare and have in every instance been collected by the author from their original sources.

1. Washington, 6 inch plate—C—inscription. “George Washington” spelled backwards.

2. Heart border plate, N. E. G., 7 inch—C.

A. Compote on stand.

3. Oblong dish with large lyres in four comers 9 inches—C.

4. Heart border, deep dish, N. E. G., 7½ inches—C.

5. Octagon dish, large American eagle and 13 stars in center—6 inch—rare—C.

A. 8 inch dish same—rare.

6. Octagon dish, 9 inch, bee hives in conventional center design with bees, often called “strawberry pattern” but upon examination the bees and bee hives are very distinct. This plate, 10 inch, was very popular and since the furor for collecting pressed glass numbers have come to light. It represents very beautiful designing and was in all likelihood sold as a cake plate. There are four large stars with four thistles around the bee hives in the center design.

7. Octagon dish, 7 inch, C, with the ship “Constitution” in the center and the word “Union” below, typifying a union sentiment against the junking of “old ironsides.” One of the rarest pieces of early Sandwich glass in existence.

8. Octagon Dish, 7 inch, C, Pennsylvania Steamboat in center. Companion piece to No. 7, very rare.

All the above large dishes match cup plates and must have been made for the most fastidious housewives of the period with that particular object in view.

9. Round plate, 8 inch, peacock feather border, three thistles and beautifully feathered scrolls in center.

10. Round deep dish, 8 inch, border of scrolls and twelve thistles. Center twenty rope circles with six pointed flowers two thistles on back ground and fine stippling.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sugar bowls and creamers were made in clear white, blue, opalescent, and purple glass. Not many of the colored ones have survived hard usage and the white many sided bowls with covers are getting very difficult to find.

Little toy pieces were made at the works in the early period such as covered tureens, tiny plates and platters, dolls’ cream pitchers, etc. These are not illustrated as the detail is too fine to be of value.