Antique American Brilliant Cut Glass Creamer Pinwheel Hobstar Choice of Two

Name: Antique American Brilliant Cut Glass Creamer Pinwheel Hobstar Choice of Two
Brand: Unmarked
SKU: 187505874673
Price: 17.95 USD
Availability: InStock

USD 17.95

Condition: Used

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View Antique American Brilliant Cut Glass Creamer Pinwheel Hobstar Choice of Two with current marketplace pricing, condition, product images and item details. Fatter: about 5 1/2" wide with the handle, 3 1/2" across the body, 2 1/2" tall, hobstar cut in the base. THE PINWHEEL. Two on hand, a different one each: the taller or the fatter, your choice. Hawkes of Corning took a grand prize at the 1889 Paris Exposition; Libbey of Toledo topped the field for cut glass at Chicago's 1893 World's Fair. Size: 4.5 inches ~ No chips or cracks. What looks like nicks along the rim is the sawtooth edge — that's how it was cut, not damage. Antique American Brilliant cut glass creamer, unsigned. Two on hand, a different one each: the taller or the fatter, your choice. This listing holds two creamers and you're bringing home one. Please message me which one you want — the taller or the fatter — after you check out. Both are heavy clear glass, hand-cut with whirling pinwheels around small hobstars, crosshatched panels, a toothed rim, a pinched spout and a notched loop handle. SPECIFICATIONS Taller: about 4 1/2" wide with the handle, 3" across the body, 3" tall, many-rayed star cut in the base Fatter: about 5 1/2" wide with the handle, 3 1/2" across the body, 2 1/2" tall, hobstar cut in the base Glass: heavy clear glass, wheel-cut Age: c. 1900-1915, American Brilliant Period Marks: unsigned Quantity: one of each; you get one creamer, your pick THE PINWHEEL The whirling motif cut into both of these is a pinwheel, patented by Patrick H. Healy on February 28, 1899 (No. 30,267) and listed among the patterns of Chicago's American Cut Glass Company. It's about as home-grown as American cut glass gets, and it stayed one of the most popular designs on the market from 1900 into the 1920s. THE PERIOD American cut glass announced itself to the world at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, where eight American firms showed deeply cut crystal that could hold its own against Europe's best. Hawkes of Corning took a grand prize at the 1889 Paris Exposition; Libbey of Toledo topped the field for cut glass at Chicago's 1893 World's Fair. The cutting itself was hand work in three stages — a rougher's first deep pass on a metal wheel, a smoother's cleanup on stone, a polisher's shine on wood with rottenstone or pumice — and it stayed that way until the First World War took the lead oxide the glass needed and cheap pressed imitations took the market. By about 1917 the era was over. WORTH KNOWING Collectors still tell the story of Hawkes's 1885 White House order under Grover Cleveland — 336 pieces in the Russian pattern, cut on Dorflinger blanks from White Mills, Pennsylvania. The tradition runs ahead of the facts: it was really a supplement to the Lincolns' 1861 service, and Hawkes never patented that pattern at all. Cut glass like this was also a standard wedding gift in its day, and plenty of new brides had a piece or two in the cabinet. The American Cut Glass Association, founded in 1978, carries the torch now with more than 1,700 members and its own magazine, The Hobstar — named for the motif sitting in the base of the fatter creamer here. Condition: Used. Category: Pottery & Glass › Decorative Cookware, Dinnerware & Serveware › Creamers. Brand: Unmarked.