Ruby Stain Newsletter

Volume 3, Issue 1

Delaware:
In addition to the puff jar and tumbler reported by Heacock we can add the table creamer. This creamer was at the Harrisburg Show and I understand that one sold on ebay. Given the existence of at least two creamers, we have to assume that the balance of the table set has to have existed at least at one point in time. Where are they?

Westmoreland's No. 15:
Bill Heacock had never seen a piece of this ruby stained when he wrote Book 7. Based upon a Pioneer Glass Co. Ltd. Catalog, Heacock expected to find the pattern ruby staining in the notches. [Book 7, pp. 214, 226.] He concluded that since the stained production had not been confirmed, "production must have been severly limited."

We can now confirm that ruby stained Westmoreland's No. 15 exists, but not as predicted by Heacock. A stained sugar base has been found.

New Patterns:

JERSEY SWIRL
MFR: Unknown
YOP: Unknown
REF: Bredehoft, N. & T. et al.: Glass Toothpick Holders; Collector Books; 1999; Page 214.

I found this miniature spittoon at an auction of ruby stain last fall. The Bredehofts state that: "...most likely it was intended to be a miniature [violet] vase."

NEVADA
MFR: U.S. Glass Co.
YOP: 1902+
NAME: By mfr. or No. 15075
REF: Heacock, W. & P. Johnson: 5,000 Open Salts; 1982; The Glass Press, 1995; pp. 138, 243.

"Heacock states the diameter of the individual salt is 2¼". The pictured salt is 2¾" in outside diameter. There is also a master salt but I have not found the dimensions, although Reilly & Jenks show a catalog page that contains both salts. [U.S. Glass The States Patterns; self published; 1999.] Scaling that picture suggests that if the individual salt is 2¼" then the master should be approximately 3" in diameter.

BLOCK DIAMOND
MFR: McKee Glass Company
YOP: Circa 1900
NAME: By mfr. No pattern number.
REF: Stout, Sandra McPhee: The Complete Book of McKee Glass; The Trojan Press; 1972; p. 212.

In the same pattern there are three shaker forms: "No. 3 Duster, No. 2 Duster, and Ind. Salt." These shakers do not have the vertical bars of the open salt. In 5,000 Open Salts, Heacock cites the pattern as "McKee's 'Block' pattern" which is incorrect. [Page 244.]

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