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Adams & Company, A Closer Look,
by Jane Shadel Spillman, From: The Glass Club
Bulletin 1990/91
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| The other patterns shown in the Spelman Brothers
Catalogs are more puzzling. A four-piece table set in "Flower Pot" is shown in 1885 as
"Our Best Table Set", and the bread tray is shown with the "Dahlia" bread tray
and the "Railroad" platter. One other assortment in 1886 shows "Flower Pot" and
"Dahlia" compotes. These two patterns have been associated
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before; A.C. Revi attributes them both to the Canton
Glass Company and has seen them in an advertisement of the Philadelphia jobbers, Young, Keiper &
Company. The Bella C. Landauer collection at the New York Historical Society has two pages of
a glass company catalog which shows the same three patterns listed by Revi: "Flower Pot", "Dahlia" and a
bird pattern dessert set with a box, grouped as "Floral Pattern". The page was
printed by the Central Lithography Company of Pittsburgh, but has no other identification.
Following up on the "Dahlia" pattern, which is shown in at least half a dozen assortments, we find it shown in assortment No. 105 in both catalogs, but the contents of the two assortments differ slightly (Figs. 19 & 20). In 1885, this grouping included eight stemware and serving pieces in "Dahlia", including one identified as "Floral Pickle Dish", a candy dish in a pattern Lee called "Panel and Rib"21 (found in a Young, Keiper & Company catalog as No. 99 ware) and a nappy in "Rose in Snow". In 1886, the No. 105 Assortment contained most of the same "Dahlia"
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Fig. 20. Assortment No. 105, pieces in "Dahlia", "Panel and Rib" and "Ida" patterns, Bryce, Higbee & Company. Spelman Brothers catalog, Spring, 1886. |