The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-30
NOVELTIES IN JEwELRY AND POTTERY

jewelers. Circular for August
Numbered among novelties are studs and
earrings of silver, finished to simulate
black pearls.
Cut glass is much used as presents. for
weddings. The consequence is one finds
ice-cream sets. berry dishes and the like,
in elegant cases after the fashion of cased
silver.
The insatiate demand for small presents
in silver has been met with wondrous
variety of patterns in the form of book
marks and envelope openers, which sell at
from 81 to S. apiece.
To be in the extreme fashion chatelaine
should be old. but silver ones of modern
date, with their ten or twelve pendants.
are nevertheless eagerly sought for by those
who are without the helrlooms.
Novelties in cut glass are individual
flower globes, which. as the name suggests.
are employed for placing before the plate
of each guest. Butter tubs for holding lit
tie fancy pats of butter are also new.
What is known to the trade as ''art porce.
lain" ought to be in the show cases of all
first-class jewelers.. This resembles the fin
est of carved ivory and comes in form of
historic and classic heads, statuettes, busts.
vases, etc.
For half-mourning toilettes, ladies wear
a.yariety of iewelry, including hairpins in
all-white or lavender eDamel grey pearls,
mounted so as to conceal the gold setting,
and dull finished, and heavily Oxydized sill
Yer ornaments.
Baby silver" almost without exception.
isdecorated with designs especially adapted
to little people. On many of the pieces are
reproduced nursery rhymes and Mother
Goose melodies in illustrations beautifully
etched or engraved.
The fashion is ever increasing for silver
bowls of one kind or another. Bowls of
medium size are wonderfully convenient
articles. and are employed for a variety of
uses regardless of the original design, as
for punch, cracked ice, flowers. etc.
In place of tall celery glasses, formerly
In fashion, are provided variety of hor-
izontal shapes on which the celery stalks
are laid. Similar shapes are also furnished
for asparagus, while tiny little dishes with
folding sides, are provided for after-dinner
coffee spoons.
Numbered with what may be termed
popular wares. in which small articles may
be found that will sell at from 81 to .
each, are Engllsh-Hungarlan ware, Stat
fordshlre pottery, imperial crown, Leeds
ware. Moorish faience, Bonn ware, Shep-
pard ware, SOudanese ware.
The present craze for veritable antiques
In jewelry has been accumulated recently
by the statement that the archbishop
placed on Miss Elizabeth DrexePs finger.
on the occasion of her marriage, the ring
given by Martin Luther to solemnize his
betrothal to Catharine Won Bora.
Unique birthday collections are gained in
a few years. in many families, by the Gus
| tom now prevalent of presenting each child,
on its birthday, with an odd piece or two of
silver. Spoons, large and small, and de-
signed for great variety of uses, are in
| cluded in these gifts. 1t need hardly be
| added that this collection usually begins
with the apostle spoons, presented at the
christening by the gOdparents.
A unique ware that promises to become
very popular. is introduced by the name
''Soudanese." 1t is a species of Bohemian
glass, being made in Bohemia. The shapes
| incline to bottles and jugs patterned after
| the Japanese gourd bottles. In these, two
kinds of glass are intermlngled, one rep
resenting in color and form a broken gourd
the other of some harmonious but contrast
ing color, filing out and completing the
piece.
There is a new fad now among society
women for collecting coffee and desert
| spoons to figure at luncheons and ''5 o'clock
| teas" In these collections duplicates are
avoided and each spoon Is aosouvenir. The
spoons especially priced represent the col
| lection of a traveller who has visited many
| countries and many climes. In this case
| each spoon is etched or engraved with the
name of the town and the date of the col.
| lector's visit there