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Adams & Company, A Closer Look, by Jane Shadel Spillman, From: The Glass Club Bulletin 1990/91
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Fig. 15. Assortment No. 155, Butter Dishes in "Curtain Tie Back", "Good Luck", "Egyptian" and "Fluted" patterns, Adams & Company. Spelman Brothers catalog, c. 1885.

patterns must be Adams, too.  The "Fluted Butter" is advertised as part of a 4-piece table set in Assortment No. 115, "an entirely new pattern", on the following page, as is Assortment No. 120, a table set in "Festoon" or "Curtain Tie Back"; and Assortment No. 145, which has the circular bread tray in "Egyptian" pattern, an oblong dish in "Curtain Tie Back", a compote in "Good Luck" and a berry dish in an unknown pattern.  The next page has Assortment Nos. 200 and 210 with Adams "Thousand-Eye" pattern, introduced

in 1885, available in blue, green and amber as "New Tinted Glass".  Goblets, tumblers, square plates, berry dishes, covered honey dishes, covered bowls and footed comports were available in these two assortments.  That seems to give us, then, 1885 as the date for this catalog, and positive attributions to Adams of several more patterns.      The Spring, 1886 catalog shows Assortment No. 172 (Fig. 16), with "Wildflower" (here called "imitation engraved"), and a cake plate and ice cream tray in patterns I don't recognize.