Mint Carnival Peacock Blue IMPERIAL Strawberry Server

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This is an obsolutely amazing find. A friend of mine has an old storage warehouse that partially flooded. We opened some boxes that were on the edge of the water that had just began wicking the water. Inside was beautiful peacock blue carnival glass made by Imperial. This is a very rare test Imperial piece without the Imperial markers. The only way I know this for sure is that it was packed with other Imperial pieces in a larger sealed shipping box from the Imperial factory. We removed the pieces before the water touched the box contents. 's what I know about the pieces. A Cinderella among Collectibles is how a recent feature antique story describes Imperial's American Made Original Iridescent Glassware of 1910, called "Carnival Glass" now because some of it was popular as Prizes at Carnival Games over 85 years ago. Then offered in six different colors, valid originals called the "Cinderellas of Antique Glass" are scarce and expensive. This type of glassware was supposely first popularized by Mr. Harry Northwood (of Wheeling Area fame) about 1900, but it was Imperial who made and marketed the Greatest Volume, the Widest Variety of glass articles and in the Greatest Choice of colors. Handpresses or Pipeblown are doped with metal, then fired to produce permanent non-toxic colorful Fiesta Iridescence. Imperial Glass Corporation of read more

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