For those who love the beauty and elegance of Vintage-Era Glassware Items - 1940s-1960’s. Many of the Glass-Makers of that era manufactured a wide variety of pieces, patterns and colours – meeting the desire to bring colour and style into the homes of consumers.

Offered here is a VINTAGE, Crystal-Clear-Glass Divided Vanity-Dish with a Farberware-Aluminum-Lid having a Bakelite-Knob-Top - in near MINT - Most-Excellent barely-used condition. This lovely dish would also serve well as a relish-dish or candy-dish.

DISH -

All Glass surfaces are highly-glossy, shiny, crystal-clear, and clean. There are no chips, cracks, stains; No significant scratches, rubs, nor hazing - just a little rub-wear on the seating-base and a small flea-bite on the upper edge.

There is a deeply-molded radiating starburst in the exterior of the base. The Dish is divided into three equal sections - by thick, molded glass dividers. ALL glass is extra thick & heavy gauge - the base is exceptionally thick at 1/2".

This Dish measures 6 3/8" in diameter across the top, 6 1/8" in diameter across the base, 1 5/8" in height.

LID -

All surfaces are shiny & clean with only faint signs of gentle use. The upper surface has a hammered texture - typical of many VINTAGE - Wrought or Stamped Pieces. There is detailing of an impressed PEONY or ENGLISH-ROSE motif on the top center of the lid. The design is crisp and clear … only slightly visible on the reverse of the Lid.

There is a handle securely-affixed to the center of the Lid by a screw. This handle is flower shaped, rising vertically (5/8" in height) from the lid - it is yellow-gold in colour - likely Bakelite or some sort of vintage plastic.

The underside of the lid is stamped "WROUGHT; FARBERWARE; BKLYN, N.Y. within the outline of an ANVIL ICON".

SOME INTERESTING INFORMATION –

COMBINED or THIRD-PARTY -

This piece is a COMBINED or THIRD-PARTY Vintage piece. Several VINTAGE manufacturers made specifically-designed items to meet the needs of other manufacturers - which they, themselves, did not market separately. 

For this piece - Farberware likely combined efforts with a well-established glassmaker and plastics manufacturer of the same era to generate this final product.

Farberware -

Farberware was founded by S.W. Farber, a tinsmith, in 1900 - in New York. Beginning with giftware he moved on to small appliances (invented the electric frying pan 1954) and eventually cookware. KNOWN for being INNOVATIVE and ALWAYS ahead of the curve - Farberware survived through the years, changing to meet customer needs & demands - quality always a priority.

Plastics –

The birth of modern-day synthetic plastics (not from plants or animals but fissil fuels) came in 1907 – the Belgian-born American Leo Baekeland invented Bakelite.

Bakelite used phenol in its manufacture – quickly following in the footstep of Bakelite came polystyrene (1929), polyester (1930), polyvinylchloride (PVC) and polythene (1933) and nylon (1935).

Soon synthetic plastics were being manufactured in white and pale luminescent colours – 1930’s

The industry BOOMED – mostly due to the war effort …. However, post-war – to keep production running – they looked to the mass consumer goods market …. TUPPERWARE launched in 1948; Hutzler Manufacturing, founded in 1938, pioneered plastic housewares manufacturing …. And other plastics were invented to broaden the scope of plastic’s usefulness to consumers.

After WW II, plastic was being used much more regularly in the home and on manufactured household items – replacing wood, metal, glass as it was versatile and usually more economical.

SHIPPING -

Currently and until further notice - only shipping from within Canada by Canada Post - Monday-Friday – not weekends; not holidays.

To pay no shipping-handling - Local Porch Pick-Up always available for purchased items – please contact seller to make arrangements.

Shipping within Canada is calculated by eBay; Shipping to the USA should be calculated by eBay, if not – please contact seller for pricing; Shipping Internationally - by air & with tracking only - please contact seller for pricing.

I refund shipping over-charges, if they are significantly over my actual cost to ship - normally, I am close to the actual cost.

All hard-surface items are – well-washed in hot soapy water, rinsed, air-dried, photographed, wrapped in clean paper towel, packed and placed into clean storage boxes until purchased.

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