BT-2 "PITTSBURGH." STEAMBOAT PRESSED OPEN SALT, cobalt/purple blue, embossed on stern, rope table ring. Very rare. Attributed to the Stourbridge Flint Glass Works, Pittsburgh, PA. 1830-1845. 1 1/2" H, 1 7/8" x 3 5/8".
Literature: Neal, Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, p. 21. Innes, Pittsburgh Glass, 1797-1791, front dust jacket and color pl. 6. Spillman, American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, p. 174, fig. 650 and color Plate Ten. Wilson, American Glass, Vol. 1, p. 296, fig. 331 and color p. 249.

Well above average conditon, stern with a small loss/chip to one corner, same side of rim with the loss of one tiny point, some mold roughness to the interior of paddle wheels and tip of the bowsprit, none affecting the profiles, rudder is intact.