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Title: who made this covered bird dish?
Post by: mrvaselineglass on January 08, 2008, 11:18:40 PM

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=110210368095 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=110210368095)

I have looked in the MILK GLASS BOOK by Chiarenza and Slater (there is a big section on covered dishes by Vallerysthal and Portieux).  I looked in the COVERED ANIMAL DISHES by Grist.  I looked in the VICTORIAN GLASS NOVELTIES by Sanford.  i spotted the base in BELKNAPs book on milk glass on pg. 175 under the DEWEY bust, but I think that is a marriage.  DEWEY is known as a Greentown (Indiana Tumbler and Goblet company), and in checking two references (Measell-older book, and Bing Hilton), both show the dewey bust on a different base and both of those references match as far as base designs.  I have run out of options.  Anyone have any thoughts who made this vaseline glass covered dish?

Somebody must have known who made it for it to bring in almost $250.

Mr. Vaseline Glass

Title: Re: who made this covered bird dish?
Post by: Sid on January 09, 2008, 02:16:49 AM

Dave:

This is the hard to find McKee Canary covered dish shown on page 33 of Ferson's "Yesterday's Milk Glass Today".  They note that it is so seldom found that it is absent from the glass literature and also state that it was also made in vaseline.

Title: Re: who made this covered bird dish?
Post by: mrvaselineglass on January 09, 2008, 03:22:08 AM

Sid
thanks!  I also just got the same info from Bob Sanford (Victorian Glass Novelties author, for those who don't recognize the name).
dave peterson