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Title: Is this Dewdrop? - ID = Hazel Atlas Teardrop
Post by: Doris104 on December 06, 2008, 09:47:10 PM

I can't find an exact match on this, but it looks alot like Dewdrop. It measures 6 1/4" across the top and has 4 legs that are diamond shape.


http://i362.photobucket.com/albums/oo70/doris104/dewdropbottom.jpg

http://i362.photobucket.com/albums/oo70/doris104/dewdropinside.jpg

Title: Re: Is this Dewdrop?
Post by: Ron on December 07, 2008, 02:09:44 AM

I don't think it's Dewdrop by Hobbs Brockunier. Perhaps some other hobnail maunfacturer?

Title: Re: Is this Dewdrop?
Post by: Cathy B on December 07, 2008, 06:30:25 AM

Hi Doris,

Where did you find this piece? It's very similar to a bowl found in a 1940s Crown Crystal catalogue: #1503 Sweet Bowl. If it had come from Australia, that's what I'd assume it was.

Cheers,
Cathy

Title: Re: Is this Dewdrop?
Post by: Doris104 on December 07, 2008, 07:02:42 AM

I found it at a church thrift shop.  They were just selling pieces that were donated to them.  Does it have any value?

Title: Re: Is this Dewdrop?
Post by: Cathy B on December 07, 2008, 07:19:54 AM

As you found it in the US, it's unlikely to be the piece from the Australian catalogue, which suggests another company made the same pattern.

That the piece appears in the Crown Crystal catalogue doesn't mean that the ones that we find in Australia are definitely Australian in any case. They could have been made elsewhere and imported by Crown, then included in their catalogue; it could have been a copy of an overseas design; or it could have been made under licence. I'm afraid I don't know.

I can't help you with the value, I'm afraid.

Title: Re: Is this Dewdrop?
Post by: Doris104 on December 07, 2008, 04:05:48 PM

Thanks for your help.  Maybe someone else will come along with an idea.

Title: Re: Is this Dewdrop?
Post by: smokerstill on December 10, 2008, 12:37:26 PM

Hi
I've always known these pieces as Hazel Atlas Dewdrop

Title: Re: Is this Dewdrop?
Post by: Cathy B on December 10, 2008, 01:20:08 PM

Hi Smokerstill,

Do you have a reference? Might be able to compare those in the Aus catalogue with those in the HA catalogue.

Title: Re: Is this Dewdrop?
Post by: smokerstill on December 10, 2008, 01:41:24 PM

Sorry no reference but a friends been selling them as that for years after getting them id ed by an "expert" its somehow like folklaw:-)

Title: Re: Is this Dewdrop?
Post by: krsilber on December 10, 2008, 06:22:40 PM

Smokerstill was close -Hazel Atlas Teardrop.

Title: Re: Is this Dewdrop?
Post by: Cathy B on December 10, 2008, 11:33:03 PM

Thanks Kristi. It's tragic, really-all these rather attractive pressed glass pieces from Crown Crystal turn out to have been copied from elsewhere. They copied Hermanova Hut extensively in the 1930s - I didn't realise just how much until I started going through Marcus' extraordinary catalogues.

(Marcus  :fwr: :-*)

Title: Re: Is this Dewdrop?
Post by: Doris104 on December 13, 2008, 08:05:19 PM

Thanks everyone for all your help with this piece :ghug:.  Can you tell me how you search on the site where you found this piece?  I have tried and all I get to come up is a picture of one item and no others.  Maybe there is only one of the items I am searching for on there.  Or maybe I just don't know enough about glass yet   :-[ to do an intelligant search on that site.

Title: Re: Is this Dewdrop?
Post by: krsilber on December 13, 2008, 08:31:40 PM

There is only one image of Hazel-Atlas Teardrop in the gallery I found it in, if that's what you mean. 

You probably tried it, but just so you know, the search engine accepts Boolean search parameters, though it gets confused if the strings are too complicated.