United States Glass Company, Volume 2, Tableware Lines
1896-1900. By Neila & Tom Bredehoft and Sid Lethbridge. ISBN
978-1-7341619-6-0.
This is the second volume of what will be the most
comprehensive study of the United States Glass Company, the largest and most
successful of the tableware combines that dominated glass manufacture in the
United States from 1891 to well into the twentieth century. Utilizing the
massive archives on the company amassed by Tom and Neila Bredehoft, as well as
resources from many other researchers and thousands of catalog pages, this volume
covers the 28 tableware lines made from 1896 to 1900 and is laid out in the
following main sections: A history of the United States Glass Co. for this
period; An overview of the Assignment Scale, which summarizes the differences
between documentation, attribution and speculation; A summary of the primary
and secondary sources utilized in the research for this book; An illustrated
summary of the major tableware lines of this firm; Appendices sharing additions
to volume 1 of the series, a list of known colors, and a selection of trade
journal advertisements. Illustrated throughout with over 400 photographs and
catalog reprints.
It is anticipated that this series will ultimately be in eight volumes, with the first five encompassing all of the 15000 patterns, followed by a volume on the short lines and miscellaneous pieces such as bowls, sugars, and butters, a volume on lamps and lighting products, and a final volume on the blown lines - cut, etched, and decorated.
Published with assistance from the Early American Pattern Glass Society.
Published by the Glass Flakes Press. Plastic coil bound with laminated covers and index of patterns. 232 pages.
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