Ruby Stain Newsletter

Volume 2, Issue 1

New Patterns

CAPE COD
MFR: Imperial Glass Company
YOP:1931-1983
NAME: By manufacturer.
OMN: No. 160
REF: Measell, J., Editor; Imperial Glass Encyclopedia; Volume II; 1997; page 227 ff.

The dates for the two cruets, not considering the ruby stain, are probably older than 1931. They are shown on page 245 of the reference, items "C" & "D", the 160/119 four ounce cruet with round stopper and the 160/70 five ounce cruet with pointed stopper. Measell notes a 1943 price list which shows the availability of some cranberry stained pieces. These are illustrated as Figures 938 to 952. Measell does not mention ruby stained Cape Cod.

The # 160/ 70 cruet pictured here is curiously souvenired for a piece which was not designed before 1931. No, it was not purchased on eBay where I hear one seller was recently selling fake souveniring.

GOTHIC ARCH
MFR: Co-Operative Flint Glass Company
YOP: 1911-
NAME: Arthur G. Peterson
OMN: No. 376 Ware
REF: Undated catalog and Glass Salt Shakers: 1,000 Patterns; 1970; Wallace-Homestead Co.; Page 153, J.

This was a "What the Heck Is It?" item in the last newsletter. Thanks to D. Kastor for sending along some pages from an old and undated Co-Operative Glass catalog. Given this information I checked in the Welker book and found a reference to the name "Gothic Arch." The pitcher stands 8.75" high.

DOUBLE SPATULA
MFR: Cambridge Glass Company
YOP: Circa 1908.
NAME: Chastity
OMN: Nearcut #2692
REF: Kamm, M.W., Book 7, 1953 Cambridge 1910 catalogue pages as Plate 79 while citing the catalog as 1909. Mrs. Kamm uses the factory name as does Revi (A.C.; American Pressed Glass and Figural Bottles; 1964; page 94) and McCain (M.H.; Field Guide to Pattern Glass; Collector Books; 2000; page 331). To add to the confusion, the Welkers (J. & E.; Pressed Glass in America; 1985; page 332) reference the pattern name of "Chastity" to a 1979 Mollie McCain reference (Pattern Glass Primer; 1979; Lamplighter Books; Plate 173). The 1979 reference does not give a source for the name.

Alas the name "Chastity" was ephemeral as even Mrs. McCain no longer acknowledges it, sorry about that, and from somewhere came the more appropriate name, and the only one I have ever heard, Double Spatula. Does anyone out there know the source of this name?

The sugar is 5 " (with top) and 3 " high and 4.25" in diameter.

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