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The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" on the 19th of April is "embossed glass". When the theme was announced, I looked through my glass collection and selected one of my more unusual pieces of glass… well for my collection anyway. Most of my collection is made up of British or European glass, yet this piece is American. It is an American Pattern Glass “Daisy and Diamond” spooner from the late Nineteenth or early Twentieth Century. The pattern name comes from the delicate daisies and diamonds embossed into it. Although it doesn’t appear in my photo, it has a slight lavender colourisation to it, which indicates that it is old glass. You’ll also see a couple of bubbles in the ruffled edges, which also identifies this as pre 1920s glass. And what is a spooner? In an ordinary middle-class or lower-class home in America at the turn of the Twentieth Century, knives and forks were kept in a drawer, very much like they are in all households worldwide today. However, the spoons were kept in the spoon holder next to the sugar bowl that was left on the table. There wasn’t a centrepiece, just necessary items on the kitchen table. Some spooners can be mistaken for large sugar bowls since they have handles on each side and are a similar shape. Spooners, however do not have lids. They were designed, as the name suggests, to hold spoons. Most spooners are older than the 1920’s. They are often identified as early American Pattern Glass or pressed glass. Most glass spooners were produced with company patterns that were named. The names can be fanciful and descriptive, such as “Eyewinker”, which refers to orbs that look like winking eyes in the glass. I hope you like my choice of the theme this week, and that it makes you smile!
Part of a glass teaspoon holder, I put colourful paper
inside to get the colours.
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A philosopher is a man who can look
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Looking close... on Friday! - Embossed Glass
(photo by Freya, edit by me)
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