The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-21
What's in Fashion?
Old-FashiOned Glassware
Directed BIZ AMOS PARRISH.

Footed tuInbIer, thumb spot
NEW YORK, May 21.-Have you
IN somewhere among your house
hold effects a brooding glass hen
that comes apart to form a dish
and cover? Maybe you found it in
your grandmother's pantry and kept
it for sentiments sake.
For fashions sake, get it out now
and fill it with flowers or candy or
fruit. (In the old days it was
logically an egg dish0 Your neigh
Dor, who probably has just purchased
a modern reproduction, will be
green with envy.
This motherly hen is only one
Of many old-fashioned glass pieces
that are being reproduced for mod
ern homes.
There's hardly a piece Of STEM
ware, plate, cup and saucer, or
pitcher that was used in the eight
zenith and early nineteenth centu-
ries that isn't being copied today.
And reproductions of old glass
ware are one of the most in fash
ion things you can have in your
home.
Using Old Molds
Sandwich glass. Waterford glass.
They're the goal of every antique
collector. Yet even these experts
admit they can scarcely tell the diff
ference between the old and the
newl
In fact, they are arguing whether
the new is not really better than the
old!
Some modern glass factories have
secured the old molds used in the
famous factories at Sandwich,
Mass, in the first half of the last
century and actually are pressing
modern glass in the original de-
signs.
What is it and why is it fashion,
able again? The last question first.
It's fashionable again because fur
niture of eighteenth century type
is fashionable again. And this
glassware ensembles well with the
furniture.
Came From Ireland
Waterford glass was made IN
Waterford, Ireland. 1t was brought
to America back in the 1700s, and
began to be copied here.
The designs were cut on the
glass, but when made in this coun-
try they not only were cut, but were
pressed into the glass by mold.
1t was made in colors as well as
crystal, just as it is today. And
those early glassmakerS made not
only table pieces, but lamps, vases,
candles and candelabra-all of
which are being copied now.
Bridge sets, beverage sets and
stemware are the most in fashion
modern pieces. Their variety of
pattern is almost limitless. And
their prices as low as you want to
pay.
Copy of Waterford
Sketch l of the short -stemmed
goblet is an almost perfect copy
Of an old piece of Waterford glass.
1t has band of diamond cuttings
around the bowl with vertical in
dentations below.
Sketch 2 Of the footed tumbler
shows two interesting cuttings-the
round thumb spot" with the fine
strawberry" cuttings on either side.
Thumb SPOT by the way, was
the American name for this design.
The English called it a "printie. /"
Sketch 8 shows another interest
ing one known as the tavern"
glass. 1t was supposed to be emptied
at one draught-and the cuttings
On the lower half were intended to
make it easier for unsteady hands
to hold
Bubble Design Shown
The goblet shown at 1. on the
other hand, was a home glass-one
dilly-dallied over the beverage.
twirling the stem the while.
Sketch 4 of the straight tumhler
is typically colonial and shows the
bubble design that comes out in
stead OF going in as the thumb spot
does.
We've also had illustrated in
sketch 5 part of bridge set in a
typical Early American pressed pat
tern. And at the bottom, part Of a
beverage set of somewhat similar
hobnail design.
(copyriEht. 1881. By Amos Parrish)
Next: Amos Parrisls reports on
fashions in hoyx' suits.