Early American Pressed Glass Enlarged and Revised

Early American Pressed Glass Enlarged and Revised

Had the number and magnitude of the obstacles that stand in the way of writing the ideal book on early American pressed glass been made plain to me at the start, I never would have undertaken the work. I knew that, being pioneer work, I could not hope to make it the final book on the subject. Of the scores of collectors and dealers that I have met not a single one remotely suspected that nearly three hundred patterns could be treated as being "collectible in sets." And when it came to securing historical information about the patterns themselves, I found that no library or private person had data that would shed light on one-tenth of the known patterns.

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Table of Contents:

COVER

ACKNOWLEDGMETS

FOREWORD

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION

REVISED EDITION

GLASS COLLECTORS' TERMINOLOGY

CONTENTS

I - INTRODUCTION

II - COLONIAL GROUP

III - OTHER PITTSBURGH PATTERNS

IV - RIBBED GROUP

V - OTHER EARLY PATTERNS

VI - BULL'S EYE AND CONTEMPORARY PATTERNS

VII - PATTERNS OF THE SIXTIES

VIII - GRAPE GROUP

IX - RIBBON GROUP

X - DEWDROP GROUP

XI - HOBNAIL GROUP

XII - FROSTED AND CLEAR GROUP

XIII - CLEAR CONVENTIONAL GROUP OF THE SEVENTIES

XIV - FLOWER GROUP

XV - LEAF PATTERNS

XVI - STIPPLED IVY PATTERNS

XVII - LOOP AND DART GROUP

XVIII - FRUIT GROUP

XIX - LATER PERIOD. STIPPLED GROUP

XX - COLOR GROUP

XXI - CLEAR CONVENTIONAL PATTERNS

XXII - BANDED PATTERNS

XXIII - DAISY AND BUTTON GROUP

XXIV - MILK-WHITE GLASS

XXV - VICTORIAN GLASS MATCH HOLDERS AND SALTS

XXVI - GOBLETS, ODD PLATES AND PLATTERS

XXVII - PRESSED PATTERNS AND TABLE DECORATIONS

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