21, 22 are tray shaped dishes of great brilliancy.
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23, 24, 25, 26 are sauce dishes, period 1839.
27. Harp and grape center and 28, grape border, conventional center, are Toddy glass plates mentioned as a type of large cup plate and very much sought after by collectors.
A. The grape eagle, blue, in this size is very rare.
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29. Presentation piece, Crown above, three feathers and motto—“Ich Dien.”—This is the badge on the Coat of Arms of the Prince of Wales and was made at the time of the visit of the late Edward VII to the U. S. in 1860.
30. Presentation piece, Gladstone, “For the Million” Imitation of English pressing. Made for the Canadian market.
32. Covered sweet meat jar or sugar bowl, eight sided. Gothic treatment.
33. Eight sided Jam dish, 5 inch, rose and thistle clear inset in corners. Rose and thistle in panels of border and is beautifully carried out in the center.
A great number of 4 inch plates were made and these are becoming very popular with collectors. These may have been “toddy plates” a large cup plate made for use with flips as many in the author’s collection bear signs of frictional wear.
Small slightly concave dishes resembling cup plates were made for “best jam” or honey. The patterns in these dishes were not in the finest designs. They were too small to be popular and larger sauce dishes were first made at the works about 1839. The covered sweet meat jars later used for sugar were rare (see illustration) and a really early Sandwich cream pitcher is the delight of the collector.
Sugar bowls and creamers were made in clear white, blue, opalescent, and purple glass. Not many of the colored ones have survived hard usage and the white many sided bowls with covers are getting very difficult to find.
Little toy pieces were made at the works in the early period such as covered tureens, tiny plates and platters, dolls’ cream pitchers, etc. These are not illustrated as the detail is too fine to be of value.