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Title: Pressed glass butter dish - von Streit?
Post by: Anne E.B. on August 27, 2011, 04:49:43 PM

I'm 99.9% sure this is von Streit's butter dish "Weinlaub" (translates roughly as vine leaves) no.1791 in their 1913 cat.  ( www.glas-musterbuch.de page.no.3. )
A nice old and unexpected piece  ;)

Title: Re: Pressed glass butter dish - von Streit?
Post by: Anne on August 27, 2011, 05:09:19 PM

3rd page of images but actually page 1 of the catalogue (have been puzzling over page 3 wondering why I couldn't see it :24:)   :ooh:

Looks like a match Anne!   :rah:  Does the size fit too?    :sun:

I bet Pamela will like to see that - she doesn't appear to have one in her museum!

Title: Re: Pressed glass butter dish - von Streit?
Post by: pamela on August 27, 2011, 05:53:22 PM

Marvellous find, Anne, congratulations! Despite a very poorly pressed base without lid, I never saw this and would highly appreciate more and larger photos from different angles for my pages, please please?

 :-*

Title: Re: Pressed glass butter dish - von Streit?
Post by: Sid on August 28, 2011, 12:32:36 AM

Hello:

This exact dish is shown in a circa 1910 Co-operative Flint Glass catalog (see below).  It is part of their Forest pattern which was introduced in 1895 but remained in production for many years.  Co-op was located in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, USA.  Imperial reproduced (or perhaps reissued from original moulds) this dish many years later.

To have this dish show up in that Streit catalog is very interesting.  Were they a glass maker or a wholesaler/retailer?  
Sid

Title: Re: Pressed glass butter dish - von Streit?
Post by: Sid on August 28, 2011, 12:48:37 AM

Hello again

There are several pieces in that Streit catalog that are very similar to items made in US factories years earlier e.g on page 7 the Kronprinz bowl is the same as a Bryce Bros. c1883 example in a pattern named Princess and the Derby bowl the same as a Bryce pattern also called Derby.

Do we know if copying old US patterns was a normal practice for this firm?

Sid
 

Title: Re: Pressed glass butter dish - von Streit?
Post by: pamela on August 28, 2011, 05:31:47 AM

 :hi: Sid, thanks for this  :clap:

Streit were manufacturers, obviously produced licensed American patterns:

 Sprechsaal 1907 advertisement  (http://www.glas-musterbuch.de/Oster-Vormesse-1907-Heft-2.84+B6YmFja1BJRD04NCZwcm9kdWN0SUQ9MzUyMSZwaWRfcHJvZHVjdD04NCZkZXRhaWw9.0.html)

Several other, still unidentified pieces of my collection come to mind: I've got a similar, blue bread plate blue f.e.  WASTE NOT WANT NOT  (http://pressglas-pavillon.de/schalen/03246.html)

What do you think?
Is the Co-op Beaver catalogue online, please?

 :t:

Title: Re: Pressed glass butter dish - von Streit?
Post by: Sid on August 28, 2011, 01:38:30 PM

Pamela

Unfortunately the Cooperative Flint Glass catalog is not on line.   Mine is a reprint which you should be able to find a copy for sale.

I will have a closer look through the Streit catalogs.

I don't know the maker of your bread plate, but can assign some of your unknown plates/bowls:

09621 - Maltese by Bryce, Walker later Bryce Bros. of Pittsburgh c 1876  aka Jacobs Ladder
09058, 06076 - Pearl by Campbell, Jones & Co. of Pittsburg c 1879 aka Dewdrop with Star
03396 - Pope Leo XIII Bread Plate by Bryce, Higbee, Pittsburgh

Sid

Title: Re: Pressed glass butter dish - von Streit?
Post by: Anne E.B. on August 28, 2011, 03:34:40 PM

Some additional pictures for Pamela  :thup:.  If these are not detailed, I can email images direct if necessary. 

It is shown as 200mm long in the catalogue, but mine measures 190mm in length.

Title: Re: Pressed glass butter dish - von Streit?
Post by: pamela on August 28, 2011, 07:14:55 PM

Thank you Anne, they look indeed very good, but a larger version of these by email would be even more perfect  :fwr:

Title: Re: Pressed glass butter dish - von Streit?
Post by: pamela on August 29, 2011, 08:37:57 AM

 :hi: Sid, thank you so much for attributions - shall do that asap  :-*

 :rah: