Ruby Stain Newsletter

Heacock Patterns, New Information

Arched Ovals:
This pattern is rare in the main pieces such as table sets. In my experience, almost all of it is found souvenired in the usual variety of ways. I was packing extra pieces to be stored away the other day when I grabbed a toothpick and noted ribbing on the inside. The ribbing is very similar to Beaumont's Inside Ribbing (#101 line) but for the fact that the Arched Ovals ribbing comes up very close to the top.

I have seen this optic effect in a butter dish top, goblet (6", pictured), creamer, and toothpick (2 x 2 "). I have also pictured the first salt shaker I have seen. Given the enameling, it was obviously destined to be souvenired but was not (3 " h x 2 " w).

Atlanta, Fostoria's:
Heacock does not have a photo of this pattern ruby stained. He attributes its existence to a conversation with Dori Miles. When I was still talking to her, I asked about it. She remembered something about one piece of some form she sold to some guy. This recollection is somewhat better than her remembering that I paid her for glass that she has never sent.

I can confirm the existence of this pattern in ruby stain. I found two tumblers on different occasions near Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. They record the 100th anniversary of this town in 1897.

Given what I have seen over the last years, I believe that we will see many unrecorded patterns only in tumblers because it was the form most easily obtained, souvenired, and sold. Indeed I have found two other tumblers identically souvenired. These tumblers are the cheaper barware grade. One was found in Franklin, Tennessee. I have yet to locate the triangular pattern but it appears that it was made by many glass manufacturers. Cambridge is a possible attribution. There will be more on this type of pattern in a later issue.

I did see another souvenired tumbler on display at this spring's Harrisburg show. It was not souvenired Waynesboro but had been found at a local auction. It was also souvenired in the same style of engraving.

The best story that I can make up is that these souvenirs were so popular that they needed additional stock and a few barrels of Atlanta were stained and souvenired. Now prove me wrong. Does anyone have any Fostoria's Atlanta in ruby stained other than souvenired tumblers?

My thanks to those purists out there who do not deign to collect souvenired pieces for leaving them for me.

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