Posted 8 years ago
TallCakes
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This is another favorite EAPG pattern. I love how the entrapped air bubble look in the clear pedestal, as many of this pattern have frosted pedestal and foot. Various recognized personalities were included in the different serving pieces in this pattern. Included on the cake stand are Maud Granger, who performed in at least 17 Broadway productions and toured with several east coast theatre companies, and Annie Pixley, who performed in the USA, Canada and London and whose death in London was shrouded with mystery as to the actual cause of death. Their names are in the glass below their image.
OMN: Opera
AKA: Actress
MFG: Adams and Company
YOP: c1880
Size: 10" OD (9-3/4" ID) x 7" H
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A real beauty one of nicest I have seen !
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I think those are champagne bubbles in the stem. What a fun pattern.
thank you Susan, champagne bubbles do go with the opera/theatre theme!!! ; )
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They say Annie Pixley had a 'brain fever' and died. She died shortly after her 12 year old son died. Grief maybe? (Suicide?)
Yeah - her son died insa drowning accident in 1886, she in 1893. She never got over his death. (I am fascinated by actresses of the 1800's) I always wanted to name a girl Lotta, for Lotta Crabtree!
She had two actress sisters, too. Minnie & Lucy.
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv61224
https://books.google.com/books?id=t9r6Kb0HdAQC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=Annie+Pixley&source=bl&ots=mPBwpnCzcG&sig=_YoyUhuGorhenFq8wg4eARSMupU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj475jmsNTQAhVnwVQKHYXLAPkQ6AEISDAM#v=onepage&q=Annie%20Pixley&f=false
Her SON died of Brain Fever, too -not drowning. According to the death record. Annie's record said she died of Uremia-coma brain hemorrhage. Possibly encephalitis, too. Her FAMILY was horrid to her husband and only wanted money after she died! (This is part two.) This video is about her death & burial place! GORGEOUS! (1 million $ in today's money)
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv61224
Here is part one.
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv61224
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thank you for the comments and research Celiene! Who could have imagined that collecting glass would have introduced us to the world of actors of the Victorian era.
Very nice-I like the bubbles too!
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What a nice and fine example, very hight class piece.
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Alan
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Love the bubbles - a very unusual cake stand.