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Art Glass Oil Cruets - Makers Patterns Dates Etc. / Illustrated Book + Values

$ 17.39

Availability: 100 in stock

Description

Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white, this early out-of-print book is a pictorial guide to art glass oil cruets.  Reproduced sales advertisements and sales catalogues coupled with color photographs of over 400 cruets make this book an invaluable resource reference guide.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VICTORIAN COLORED PATTERN GLASS – BOOK 6 – OIL CRUETS A to Z
by William Heacock, Antique Publications Inc., 1981.
Catalog reprints include the 1890 - 1891 Hobbs Glass Company and Hobbs, Brockunier & Co., a 1901 McKee Glass Catalogue, various Duncan and Miller Catalogue reprints, as well as Northwood, Union Stopper Co., Fostoria, U.S. Glass, Paden City Glass Mfg. Co., and others.  The color section of this catalog pictures and identifies over 400 individual oil cruets including colored glass, amberina, cranberry glass, milk glass, custard glass, MOP, opalescent, holly amber, Libbey maize, peachblow, and more.  There is also information of reproductions.  This scarce book belongs in the permanent reference library of the collector, dealer, or historian of antique cruets.
8.5” x 11” softback in very good condition.  104 pages.
Includes 1987-1988 4-page "Value and Rarity Guide."
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