October 2015 – Backseat Driver

Royal Lace Hot Toddy Sets

These aren’t available all that often and the one shown in amethyst looks to be in great condition with all the parts. The one in cobalt (blue) looks a little worse for wear missing the tray and label. Oh the glass I would buy if I could 🙂

Mayfair “Open Rose” Sugar Lid

I’ve never seen one of these for sale.

The pink lid above is listed as being worth $2500 in the collectors encyclopedia, $2200 in Mauzy’s, and is not even listed in Warman’s.

Blue Princess Cookie Jar

This cookie jar is too rare to price. I have only ever seen it on the cover of this book:

Nibbler in Crayon

Doggy Decoy

Cameo “Ballerina” or “Dancing Girl” cookie jar

cameo ballerina cookie jar — Cameo “Ballerina” Cookie Jar

By Hocking Glass Company, 1930-1934

bottom of cameo cookie — this is the bottom of the jar, note the mold mark

This is a great classic cookie jar in a great classic pattern. Cameo has been described as a great example of a typical depression glass pattern. The pattern was made in four colors green, topaz (yellow), pink and crystal (clear). But not all of the pieces were made in all colors. The cookie jar it was only ever produced in green. There are a couple of people selling cookie jars in the cameo pattern that are pink/yellow/cobalt. These were miniatures made for children. Sometimes the scale in eBay post isn’t obvious so it’s good to know that these re out there.

One last thing, because of the elements they added to color green depression glass, this cooki jar glows under a black light.

cameo ballerina black light — Under black light

House finch

Reconstructing Lamb

Someone broke a lamb figurine that my mom brought us from Israel. So I thought I’d try my hand at putting it back together.
Ceramic figurines that have broken into relatively large sized pieces are pretty easy to reconstruct. I start by looking for pieces that obviously go together and glue them to make larger pieces.