Posted 13 years ago
rural_charms
(33 items)
I got it also at a thrift store... for crafts... Don't know what I'll use it as yet... Just know is very pretty with the red and the crystal together.
Thanks,
Katherine
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Katherine, That is Indiana Glass Company's Garland pattern. With ruby stain, probably from the 1940s/1950s era. Not found terribly often with ruby stain.
Really now? hmm should I take some additional pictures to help identify it better? anything I should look for...? It is such as pretty basket "sigh" I bought it even tough I cant use it for my arts and craft stuff... but I couldn't resist myself... I think I said 3 or 4 dollars for it at Goodwill.
Thanks
~Katherine
Katherine, Doesen't need further identification. This pattern is found more often with color staining on the fruits than with ruby stained edge. Pattern was introduced in 1935, but Indiana's patterns generally had long lives.
Don't drill it!
Ok, Paul thank you once again for your help I won't even consider it now.
Appreciate your help.
~Katherine
One more question for any one able to answer please:
So I visited this website for Indiana glass pattern identification http://indianaglass.carnivalheaven.com/id281.htm
I saw some of the details of the garland as in my basket... but my basket has the red stain all around the edges. I am trying to find out more pictures on the web. So is this considered a bit more of a semi-rare piece because it is stained on the edges?
Thanks
~Katherine
I am still curious about this little basket... how come they aren't as common with the red stain on the edges . I have looked and looked, but perhaps I am just overwhelmed and looking in all the wrong places. I want to keep this beautiful basket and have no intention on taking the handles off to drill on it.... but I would like to know some more about it and if there is any value to it.
I have the same pattern you will see it in here but its a bowl with a plate, the last time i seen a candy dish like yours was in 1985 it had a price tag on it for 395.00.
pattern number #301 garland indiana glass 1935 you will not find nothing on this color ruby/flash its very rare, very nice !!!!
the basket was made by adding a handle to a crimped bowl. Sometimes handler marks were used in basket making; check to see if there is a patterned impression on each side where the handle is attached to the bowl. It is probably a long shot, but if there is a handler's mark there may be a record somewhere.
there is a pattern impression 3 dots/ or small circles like forming a triangle
K~ Some patterns were done with different decorative treatments. This particular pattern is found more often with multi-colored stained fruit. It can also be frosted in addition to color staining. I don't know that I would say the ruby stained edge is "rare". This term is very much overused when describing glassware. It's difficult at best to ascertain rarity for patterns/forms that don't have a huge following. A lot of it is perception on the part of the owner. How broad are the owner's searches for the particular item? What marketplace is being surveyed? How often is the owner avidly searching for the item?
It is a bit easier to ascertain the rarity of items that are widely collected, and have been widely collected for a long time (like Greentown glass, for example). Here, there are many people searching for specific items and the discovery of a hitherto unknown item is publicized throughout the collecting community.
Could it be that this is a Westmoreland instead if an Indiana?
no, this is Indiana's Garland pattern and was not made by Westmoreland.
I went ahead and clicked on mystery solved. :) Thanks everyone.