small pressed glass cream pitcher, ruby stained with hand-engraving
Use
creamer, but primarily as decorative souvenir
Collection
Household Goods
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Kenny King
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1850 - circa 1910
Notes
likely manufactured in Logan, WV
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Type
Inscription
Location
acorss sides
Transcription
Logan, W VA. | Verna Howell 1908
Material/Technique
Etched
Notes
includes illustration of a tree branch over the script
Materials
Material
Glass
Material Notes
ruby stained
Location
Location
* Untyped Location
Exhibition, encased
Category
Exhibit
Provenance
Provenance Detail
eBay Purchase
Role
Purchaser
Acquisition Method
Purchase
Exhibitions
Exhibition
Life in the Coal Camps
Notes
Household Items case
Research Notes
Research Type
Internet
Person
Shaun Slifer
Date
Nov 26, 2020
Notes
Early American Pattern Glass, also known simply as "pattern glass", "pressed glass", or Victorian glass, is pressed glass tableware (& some related novelty glass items) made during the Victorian period ca 1850-1910, only in America, in goblets and in "sets" such that all of the pieces in the set match in design. These sets of dishes were made by hundreds of glass factories- some more long-lived and more well-known today than others.
While the wealthy of that period would have used blown glass and china from abroad, this "pressed ware" as it was called commercially, were the dishes used by the "everyday housewives".
(https://www.antiquetrader.com/collectibles/souvenir-ruby-glass-flashed-stained)
