Northwood GRAPE & CABLE Nutmeg Stained Custard Glass Footed Sherbet Berry ca1914

Description

Northwood Grape and Cable Nutmeg Stained Custard glass sherbet circa 1914
(Photo taken outdoors with no flash.  More photos below.)
Classic Northwood Glass
Northwood's Grape and Cable
Nutmeg Stained
Custard Glass Footed Sherbet Bowl
Approximate Dimensions:
4½"(Diameter) x 3" (High) x 3" (Base Diameter)
Made by
Harry C. Northwood Glass Company
Wheeling, West Virginia
ca 1914
Source
:  Heacock, William, James Measell, and Berry Wiggins (1991),
Harry Northwood: The Wheeling Years 1901-1925.
Marietta, OH:  Antique Publications, pp. 128-129.
This is an antique
"Northwood's Grape and Cable"
custard glass footed sherbet or berry bowl with "nutmeg stain" made by the Harry C. Northwood Glass Company circa 1914.
The Northwood trademark (underlined N in a circle) is on the interior center of the bowl.
Very Brief Background on Northwood & Dugan.
Thomas Dugan and his cousin, Harry C. Northwood, started out in the 1880s as employees at the Hobbs-Brockunier Glass firm in Wheeling, West Virginia.  Eventually, Harry would form the
Northwood Glass Company
of Wheeling, West Virginia and Thomas would form the
Dugan Glass Company of Indiana, Pennsylvania
.  Both companies were kingpins of the carnival and opalescent glass market in the early 1900's.  Trading, swapping, or "borrowing" one another's glass moulds has been speculated.  Both Northwood and Dugan-Diamond Glass shut down in the mid-1920s.
Condition.
This item is in
excellent
condition with no chips, chiggers, cracks, or repairs.
There are, of course, the usual straw marks ("shearing and crimping tool marks") and internal air bubbles from manufacturing commonly associated with the making of old EAPG, carnival, and opalescent glass.
The hand making and finishing of old glass assures that no two pieces are identical, each piece is truly unique.
... would look great alongside any Northwood, Dugan, Jefferson,  Millersburg, Fenton, Westmoreland, Imperial, or other antique glass from the makers of fine opalescent, carnival glass, and EAPG.
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