Offering a set of five (5) vintage Libbey, designed by Douglas Nash, 4 1/8" cocktail glasses in the "Royal Fern" pattern. Illustrated in the Libbey/Nash 1933 catalog. Excellent condition, no chips, cracks or repairs. No visible signs of use. Please see photographs as they are part of the description.
"In 1931, The Libbey Glass Company hired A. Douglas Nash to design what was one of the most ambitious and elaborate lines of fine glass ever produced in modern times. Nash was the son of Arthur J. Nash, who came from England in 1891 to be superintendent of the Tiffany Glass Works. Douglas Nash moved to Toledo and designed the series of fine quality art glassware. An imposing catalog titled "Libbey Crystal: The New Era In Glass" introduced the series in 1933. 'Libbey Crystal is hand-blown, hand-cut,' one 1933 ad declared. 'No machine in the world can produce the same graceful lines, the same flashing brilliance, that identify the handiwork of the master glass craftsman.' Unfortunately, the elaborate and expensive series of Nash designs was not well accepted by the buying public, which was in the midst of the depression years, so the Libbey-Nash production was doomed to failure and was discontinued in 1935."
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