Jeffrey S. Evans & Assoc., Inc.
Live Auction

June 15, 2023: Americana - Glass

Thu, Jun 15, 2023 09:00AM EDT
Lot 538

HEAVY BEEHIVE PRESSED OPEN SALTS, LOT OF FOUR

Estimate: $80 - $120
Sold for
$127.50
Sold Price includes BP

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HEAVY BEEHIVE PRESSED OPEN SALTS, LOT OF FOUR, colorless, deep fiery opalescent with black streak to interior, light green bottle glass, and pale green, each rectangular form with curved, even-scallop rim above two conforming ribs, base with three ribs flanked by a ridge on each end. Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. and possibly others. 1827-1835. Various sizes.
Literature: Barlow/Kaiser - The Glass Industry in Sandwich, Vol. 1, p. 278, fig. 1436. Spillman, American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, p. 242, figs. 945, 946.

Condition

Pale green example with significant crack, remainder average with light to moderate chipping/flaking to rims. 

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Glass deaccessioned by the Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT. All proceeds will go toward the museum's Collections Acquisition Fund.
Ex-collection of James A. Warren, West Coxsackie, NY.