40s Aqua Pitcher

How do you like the newest addition to my pitcher collection? Isn't she a beauty! I love the stripes and the aqua color. I did a little research online and couldn't find anything on when it was made or by what company. I can't decide....40s or 50s? The stripes look 40s to me.

 Isn't it nice it matches exactly the Fiesta Ware bowl? Those are apples we picked on Sunday. A perfect day for a Fall outing and a perfect ending to the day, a stop at a local antique store!

  I love the way it is decorated with reverse color. Is it just me or do the oranges look a bit like blueberries?

I just noticed a pattern to my pitcher collection. Most of them have the same handle! Is that just what I like or was that just a standard handle? I will have to pay attention to the pitchers I pass up.

Glass pitchers are so hard to photograph! Hopefully you can catch some of the beauty of it. I love it's smooth shape.

I am back...

Sorry friends for just dropping of the earth like that. I went to visit my sister last week. I meant to have a few posts all ready to go, but that just didn't happen. Anyway I am back and had a wonderful time! Even though it was a working holiday, it was fun. I went up to help a friend of my sister's with her wedding, as coordinator. Such a fun job! I have some really fun things to share, if I can find a camera.

 I have a very small blue glass collection, Very small, as it is so pricey! This is the newest addition.

Made by the Hazel Atlas Glass Company between 1940-1950, the pattern is called "Moderntone". It is in beautiful condition! A great piece for my collection. besides, I really love pitchers!

Park Avenue Advert

Do you remember this glass from an earlier post? Well, my sister and I were looking through a few of my old magazines, and guess what she found??

From the Women's Home Journal 1946
Isn't that too cool! I can't beleive it was under my nose for years. Maybe that is why I like it.

Milk Bottles

Yes, I have a collection! Fifteen milk bottles. I didn't realize I had so many, until I put them all out. It all started with one I found in my grandfather's garage. It was from a local dairy. Then I got the brilliant idea to collect a milk bottle from all the different towns I have been in. It helped to narrow the field down for me. Of course I have a couple from my home town too. I try and make them useful by using them to hold knitting needles, pencils and scissors. And they make dandy vases!

Milk Bottles are very hard to date as the they didn't change that much. Milk first started being delivered in glass bottles about 1903, but didn't become wide spread until 1920's. There are two methods of marking a bottle; eembossed (the letters are a raised part of the glass) and pyroglazing (a method of "glazing" a paint on) first used in 1933. Two very informative sites are: http://www.sha.org/bottle/index.htm http://dairyantiques.com/Home_Page.html I haven't done to much research on them. They are such fun pieces of history. Some even have funny saying on them. "They Came to Visit not to Stay, Please Return our Bottles Every Day!"

 A local milk bottle

Park Avenue

This is my new pink glass. Isn't it beautiful? If you remember this is one of the items I bought last weekend antique shopping. I have it on my dressing table so I don't have to traipse all the way downstairs to get a drink of water at night. Also I was tired of having a green plastic cup marring my decorating theme. The pictures captured the color wonderfully.

I didn't really know anything about the pattern or who made it, so I did a little research. The pattern is called "Park Avenue" made by the Federal Glass Co in the 1940s. The color is called "Ruby Flash". To make it ruby colored they had to put a thin layer of colored glass over clear glass and reheat or flash it to bond them. In the picture above you can see the company mark, an F in a shield.

I really love the color. Maybe I should start a collection of ruby glass...