Ruby Stain Newsletter

Volume 2, Issue 1

New Patterns

BLOCK AND CIRCLE
MFR: Unknown
YOP: 1860s Millard, 1880s Metz
REF: Millard, S.T.: Goblets; 6th Ed. 1949; Plate 113. Metz, A.H.: EAPG; 1958; Page 208-9; #2391.
LOOK ALIKES: Double Wedding Ring, Double Arches

Millard says that it has a "good ring", "made in the 60s", "comes only in clear" and is "fairly heavy." I agree to the later quality only. The double knobbed stem is interesting. Metz calls it "another one of the 80s", more likely given the staining and states that it is available only in the goblet. The goblet is 6.25" tall and the bowl is 3 " wide. To me the staining has the look of the late 20s and 30s. Green Valley Auction had an apothecary jar with the same staining a year or so ago. I understand it is in an antique shop in Maine, priced at $4,000+.

CENTURY
MFR: Fostoria Company
YOP: 1950-82
NAME: by mfr.
OMN: Blank 2630
REF: Long, M & E. Seate: Fostoria Stemware; 1995; Collector's Books; Page 48.

According to Long and Seate a full table service was introduced in 1949 and was available in several decorations. The stem ware was introduced in 1950 and there were no decorations done on stemware.

As can be seen, it was decorated. The staining is excellent. The piece is 5 " tall with a flared out lip 3.75" in diameter. Long and Seate show a 12 ounce Footed Ice Tea with this height.

CAMBRIDGE #2658
MFR: Cambridge Glass Company
YOP: As early as 1908. In 1910 Cambridge "Nearcut" catalog. Not in 1903 Catalog.
NAME: Never named.
OMN: #2658 Nearcut
REF: Cambridge 1910, page 84; Mordock, J.B. & Adams, W.L., Pattern Glass Mugs, 1995, The Glass Press, #449, page 84.

Heacock mentions this pattern and then references the 1910 catalog, and concludes with a note "See Souvenirs." He apparently planned on covering the pattern in his book 8.

The 1910 catalog shows three forms, four ounce mug, five and one half ounce individual cream, and an eight ounce tumbler.

The mug (2 " high by 2.75" diameter) is very common. I have never seen the creamer. Mordock & Adams state that the mug also comes in clear, clear with enamel, and marigold carnival. The tumbler is 3.75" high with a flared out top 3" in diameter. Unsouvenired is rare. The pictured tumbler does not carry the Near Cut mark suggesting an earlier pattern that may have been added to the Near Cut line or a reworked mold. Support for this position comes from the fact that the two forms do not have the same pattern on the bottoms.

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