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Title: Green glass box with lid - ID = Hazel Atlas "Criss-Cross" fridge box
Post by: mrs vulture on March 04, 2009, 08:20:38 PM
Hello, my husband bought this rather nice uranium green lidded box for me today.It glows well under uv light. Its too big for a trinket box at nearly 9 inches long, bit small for a biscuit box. I've not seen one this shape before. Also would be nice to know the maker. Any thoughts welcome. Thank you , Cheryl.


http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w97/cheryl1300/green003.jpg
Title: Re: Green glass box with lid
Post by: Lustrousstone on March 04, 2009, 08:49:41 PM
It's almost certainly a refrigerator box, but I don't know who dunnit. I have a completely different one here. (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,6947.0.html) Similar items were made by Bagley with and without Electrolux on the lid. A set of three, two small square and one long one, seems to be a common set. Here is another set (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,22658.0.html) They seem to be quite common in the US
Title: Re: Green glass box with lid
Post by: Anne on March 04, 2009, 11:59:14 PM
Orrefors made refrigerator boxes for Electrolux according to the Orrefors Electrolux archivist.

Edited to correct information (incorrect info crossed out)
Title: Re: Green glass box with lid
Post by: mrs vulture on March 05, 2009, 07:03:06 AM
Hi, I think you are right about it being a fridge box, but I never would have guessed that myself. I looked on Ebay and there is a clear glass one of the same pattern but in a smaller square shape in America. It won't be going in my fridge!! Cheers cheryl
Title: Re: Green glass box with lid
Post by: Lustrousstone on March 05, 2009, 07:44:53 AM
So does that mean Angela was wrong and Bagley didn't make any for Electrolux? Do we know where she got the Electrolux ideas from?
Title: Re: Green glass box with lid
Post by: Anne on March 05, 2009, 02:26:55 PM
Christine, I don't know Angela's source for the Bagley/Electrolux attribution, but I do have the email from the Orrefors ELECTROLUX archivist about their producing them. It's on the board somewhere as we discussed this some years ago...

ahhh found it: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,1514.0.html

Note correction: it was the Electrolux archivist not the Orrefors one!  :-[ (That'll teach me to rely on my memory!!!  :-[ )
Title: Re: Green glass box with lid
Post by: Cathy B on March 05, 2009, 08:25:28 PM
I think lots of companies must have been licenced to make the Electrolux boxes. There's proof that in Australia, Crown Crystal did as well.
Title: Re: Green glass box with lid
Post by: aflint on March 07, 2009, 02:16:21 AM
Hi, I believe this is a #9780-9780 1/2 4x8 inch oblong refrigerator jar & cover made by tha Hazel-Atlas company in the US. It's part of a line named Crisscross Kitchenware and was made in pink, green, crystal, and some pieces in blue. Late 1930's.  :)

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Title: Re: Green glass box with lid
Post by: mrs vulture on March 07, 2009, 07:36:47 AM
Hi, thanks you very much for your info,  thats EXACTLY what it is, wonder how it got to England, there are lot of Americans at the air bases here.
Thanks again Cheryl.
Title: Re: Green glass box with lid
Post by: Lustrousstone on March 07, 2009, 02:25:55 PM
Hazel Atlas exported quite a lot of glass tableware to the UK in the 1930s, so it was probably just a normal import.

Nice to see you here as well Alison  :fwr:
Title: Re: Green glass box with lid
Post by: aflint on March 07, 2009, 05:36:48 PM
You're very welcome Cheryl - I'm thrilled that I could ID anything on this board but you happened to have something I knew well.

Christine - it's good to see familiar, um, faces here, I'm a fish out of water I'm afraid. I see a couple of other favorite folks here as well -  Janice for one. Most of what I come across fits in at our chataboutdg site. Here in the
heartland I see predominately Depression era and newer American made glass.
Title: Re: Green glass box with lid
Post by: Anne E.B. on May 18, 2009, 04:29:16 PM
Here's an Electrolux refrigerator storage box bought earlier today.  An identical one is also shown on the Wakefield Museum online collections in their Bagley section.  Attributed to Bagley & Co. Knottingley, produced 1945-65. 
Cool or what?  ;)
Title: Re: Green glass box with lid
Post by: mrs vulture on May 18, 2009, 05:39:26 PM


Hi,  I love my refrigerator box, I have it on display on my fireplace in the living room. Nobody would think you would hide it away inside the fridge. I bought an old glass battery case the other day. (about 10 inches tall) Its not pretty really, just a functional bit of glass but still interesting what uses glass can have. My Mum said they used to have them during the war to power the radio and had to take it to a shop to have it charged. I'll use it as a vase!!    Regards cheryl
Title: Re: Green glass box with lid
Post by: Anne E.B. on May 18, 2009, 06:00:22 PM
What a great idea!  Is it like this one? http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16526721
I've seen something similar to these on my travels and haven't given them a second look, but will do so in the future.  Mini-propagator in the garden may be, or to hold spaghetti ... ;) 
Title: Re: Green glass box with lid
Post by: Jay on May 19, 2009, 11:06:19 AM
Amongst the many local (european) designs for fridge boxes (mostly in clear glass) it's important to note the 'Kubusgeschirr' designs by Wagenfeld.
I've seen these for sale at over 150 euros each!

http://www.deutschefotothek.de/obj32006993.html


In Holland both factories made vesions (some of which are marked 'PEN'.)

I have a complete box here which even has a perfect vacuum seal, It still works so well that you can lift the box by holding the lid!!!

I use it to demonstrate the wonders of glass design! ;-)
Title: Re: Green glass box with lid
Post by: mrs vulture on May 19, 2009, 06:12:33 PM


Hi Anne, my battery box is similar but taller, its got an acid level marked all round the top and other words in the glass about the charge etc, only paid a pound for it but I thought it was interesting. I had never seen one before. Mine is clear glass with a green tinge, very heavy. Suppose they are a bit of history in a way.

Regards cheryl