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very life-like. These goods are made both
etched and plain." Collectors will readily recognize the
"Actress" pattern from these descriptions. Previous authors have
speculated that Riverside's "Lily Langtry" or Crystal's
"Pinafore", both advertised but not illustrated in trade papers,
might have been the "Actress" pattern (Fig. 2); on the work of
an elderly glassworker, it has also been attributed to the LaBelle Glass
Company. However, the forgoing descriptions are unmistakable.
The first Adams pattern for 1881 was No. 329, a plain
one announced by Adams, Jan. 20, 18818. This
stayed in the line for a decade, since it is in both the
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8Kamm, Bk. 4, No. 34.
9J. Stanley
Brothers, Thumbnail Sketchers, 1940, p. 31.
10A. Christian Revi,
American Pressed Glass and Figure Bottles, 1964, p. 100.
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catalog used by Lee and the one published by Heacock. The
second 1881 pattern, according to Brothers, was the "Good Luck"
or "Horseshoe" pattern.9
Brothers gives no tradepaper citation, but says that the shapes were
designed by Vogeley after a conception by James Dalzell. The
conception to which he refers is the design on the wheelbarrow shaped
relish dish, which James Dalzell patented Jan. 3, 1882.10
The spray of foliage on the side of the wheelbarrow is usually thought to
be the basis for the "Barley" pattern, but Brothers thought it
was more closely related to the flower design which is part of
"Horseshoe", and that, and the fact that James Dalzell was
employed by Adams at this time seem to be the basis for his attribution.
The motif on the side of the wheelbarrow does seem much closer to the
spray o "Good Luck" than the "Barley" pattern.
The AP&GR for Nov. 17, 1881, says that Adams is selling "a most
unique butter dish in the shape of a wheelbarrow", and on Dec. 15,
adds that Adams is having a "great rush for their glass
wheelbarrow." Although I am inclined to accept.
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