Posted 8 years ago
PileOfJunk
(15 items)
I bought this on eBay from a man in Idaho. He said it was his Grandmother's. It's 12" long x 5.75" wide x 2 3/8" tall. It is very THICK and heavy with DEEP cuts. The middle part of the dish "crimps" in (rolls over inwards) as if one squeezed a French bread baguette. Pictures # 1, 2 and 3 are of MY dish. The dish had such an intricate pattern that attracted me to it. I wondered how they could cut those geometric designs on an elliptical piece of glass. Those "tire tracks" or "tank tracks" and that square center-piece jogged my memory. The pattern looked very familiar. Although I am an amateur I have been looking at pretty pictures of cut glass. I went back to Pinterest and Brilliant Glass and found Picture # 4 which is a bowl that was identified as made by Blackmer in the "Columbia" pattern. The pattern looks identical ! Can any ABP cut glass expert out there "verify" if MY dish is actually a Blackmer "Columbia" pattern celery dish ?
There is a ABP group on Facebook that IDs items if you post on their page.:
https://www.facebook.com/AmericanCutGlassAssociation/?fref=ts
[In my inexpert opinion, thought there were other companies that used that "tire track" motif, it does look like Blackmer's Columbia.]
Your 4th photo comes from the web page " The House of Brilliant Glass." Here is a link to that page. http://www.brilliantglass.com/blackmer/ This dealer has been around for years and knows his glass.
Thank you Mark for your input. I followed Katherine's suggestion to go to ACGA facebook page and found 2 cut glass people/experts thought that it was a piece of Blackmer cut glass. It seems like everyone "believes" it is Blackmer's "Columbia" pattern and SHOULD consider it solved ?