Topic: Any ABP Experts out there? Cut Pitcher

[KarenR]

eGlass - There is much more to the Home Cut Glass Company catalog than it just being the nicest catalog many collectors have never left a fingerprint on.   

The wedge shaped piece is cut in a Harvard pattern.  Dorothy Daniel attributes the origin of Harvard to Pairpoint and states it is not as old as Russian but older than prism cuttings and any of pinwheel designs.  She shows a punch bowl from a Hawkes scrapbook in the same pattern as the wedge shaped piece but I have no other reference than this for Hawkes Harvard.  Kristi has better Pairpoint references than I do but it's possible the blank can be identified but not the cutting house with Pairpoint having been a blank supplying company. 

[krsilber]

Eglass - thanks for the thought, anyway!  I'm pretty sure it's not Pairpoint.  My best guess at the moment is Hawkes for the cutting, but it would help to know who did the blank.  One day I'll find out!  Maybe.

Just an aside:  hard to see it clearly, but it looks like a pattern very similar to Harvard is shown in Hadjamach, pg. 372, attributed to "Stourbridge."  The only difference I can see is that the crosshatching runs horizontal/vertical rather than diagonally.