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Carnival Question - ID = Imperial Fashion punch bowl base

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Leni:
Seriously, many thanks for your help   It's fascinating to see the punch-bowl set-up as intended!    I wonder where my mother-in-law got the 'vase' in the first place!   She has no recollection, and thinks it might have been *her* mother-in-law's! 

Obviously a family tradition has been started 

Thanks again

Leni

Leni:
I am beginning to wonder if at one time there was a punch bowl on top of the base my m-i-l 'inherited'.  It could have been broken years before by *her* m-i-l and she wouldn't ever have been aware that it used to have one! 

I wonder how old it is?  Can you tell me when exactly were they made? 

(As the child of an older mother, who was herself the youngest child of an older mother, I often find myself 'out of step' with the age of things.  For example, I don't tend to think of any things made in the 20thC as being really 'old' at all! )   

Leni

Glen:
Hi Leni - the near-cut (intaglio) designs were a speciality of Imperial - they made some superb examples. In 1909 they issued a general catalog of crystal glass that had a wide range of intaglio geometrics - including the "Fashion" items. Note the pattern name "Fashion" was given to the design by collectors, and not by the manufacturer. Imperial actually referred to the punch bowl as their #4029 ½ (the water pitcher and punch cup were #402 ½).

Their iridescent items were introduced round about that date - and as you will have noted in the Lee Manufacturing ad that I posted for you, the Carnival punch set was being marketed in 1915 (and very possibly for a number of years after that date - it was a very popular item).

Glen

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