Hard, I think, to find a deco slag glass lighter with a  matching ashtray.

Looks very much like the Akro Agate pieces from mid 20th century but this piece of slag (and likely uranium) glass is by Vidrio .


Superb colours here with a light green/custard and oxblood or caramel swirl throughout.


The bottom of the ashtray is marked with the manufacturer's name and location:


"Vidrio Products Corp.

Cicero Ill.

Pat'd

No. 6000"


Here is an excerpt from a Corning Glass Museum's answer to a request for info on Vidrio:


In the Rakow Library collection we do have the following reprint of a Vidrio Products trade catalog published by the West Virginia Museum of Glass: Vidrio Products Corporation, 1926-1953.

 
Vidrio Products Corporation, Cicero, Ill. (1929 to 1953)
Smoking products
Possibly Vidrio
Household items
Lamps
Labels
Vidrio product list (model numbers)
Patents
Newspaper advertisements
American Flint Glass Workers' Union documentation
Drawings submitted to the A.F.G.W.U. for determination of wage and turn rates
Other products: catalog sheets, circa 1930s.
Subjects




The glass is in excellent condition.

There is, however, some minor chipping around part of the top of the base for the lighter. 

I guess that is to be expected as the lighter was, for many, many years, repeatedly placed back into its base..


Educated guessing this is early in Vidrio's mid 20th century run- likely a 1930's piece? 


I have plugged this in and it does heat/light up.

(NOTE: I first listed this a few days ago but removed the listing as I mistakenly thought the lighter didn't work.

I have since discovered, in further researching the piece, that the lighter needs to be turned down and then up after being plugged in.

The lighter is working. It fires right up as it should). 


What looks like the original wiring appears to be fully intact.

The plug also appears to be original and seems to be missing the paper cover to the connections.


This may be uranium glass but I do not have a black light to check.

In response to a question from an interested party during the previous listing, I suggested that interested buyers look at the ebay completed sales for Vidrio electric lighters to satisfy themselves that this is likely uranium glass.

Those completed sales include  similar Vidrio lighters made from what appears to be the same slag glass and those sales are advertised/listed as uranium, glowing under blacklight, glass.

Note also that I found a 2014 sale of this Vidrio lighter and ashtray piece, in the same colors, on Worthpoint. The description for that sale included the info that the piece was uranium glass.

As I am not a glass guy, I do not have a black light handy.


Ashtray base is 3 1/8" by 6".

The bell or dome shaped lighter piece is 3" high and fits properly in its seat in the ashtray base.


An interesting, beautiful and functional piece with great colours.

Harder to find combination of both the lighter and the ashtray base together and intact.


I have priced this given the apparent scarcity of similar items out there and based on previous sales of the same and similar items. 


SEE MY OTHER VINTAGE CAST IRON TABLE LIGHTER LISTING.


Combined shipping available.


Thanks for looking.