The Bellaire Goblet Co. made a cov'd mustard/ condiment jar in their STARS & BARS aka DAISY & CUBE aka Bellaire goblet #600 pattern ca 1886 $58

This little mustard container fashioned from a shaker is made of chocolate glass and is in the CACTUS aka GREENTOWN; INDIANA TUMBLER Greentown Glass #375
ca 1899.**SOLD**

Another States' Series pattern for WISCONSIN by the U S Glass Co.
ca 1903.
$145 A cov'd mustard by J. B. Higbee in their COLONIAL pattern ca 1910. The base is signed with the HIG bee as is the very rare signed condiment spoon. 
All 3 pieces - $145
Duncan Miller made this cov'd mustard or horseradish container in their BLOCKED THUMBPRINT BAND pattern ca 1900. $58

   No one knows who first used mustard to flavor food but it is believed to have originated in Ancient Egypt and exported to Europe by the Romans who used it for both food and medicine - as a cure for anything from hysteria to snakebite to bubonic plague.   

   In the early 19th century Colmans of Norwich, England became the world's first mustard millers - milling the heart of the mustard seed to a fine powder, mustard flour - and they established mustard as an industrial food ingredient.

   Alvina Breckel remembers that when she volunteered as a "pioneer woman" at the Chicago Historical Society, she learned that without refrigeration, meat preservation methods didn't produce such a tasty product. So heavy salting and condiments such as mustard were helpful in covering up the slightly/ strongly rancid taste of meat.

Ever ready to meet the container and serving needs of Victorian Americans, many of the companies that made pattern glass created small containers with slotted lids in order that these tasty condiments such as mustard and horseradish would be stylishly served.
We show a few examples here ranging in production from about the 1880s to the first decade of the 20th century.


The Mustard plant is a very hardy annual, weed-like in it's ability to tolerate harsh conditions, it blooms bright yellow in the spring. By late summer the plants are heavy with green pods containing the mustard seeds which are as hardy as the plant and can survive decades of drought.

A scarce piece of the States' Series MINNESOTA pattern by the U S Glass Co. ca 1890s. It has 3 handles like the toothpick holder of the pattern. **SOLD**

Heisey made this cov'd mustard in their FANCY LOOP w/ original lid aka #1205 pattern ca 1898. $115


This little mug with a slotted lid (which makes it into a condiment jar) is shown in Adams' Mug book and named FLARED BOTTOM SQUARES.
$55 Another pattern from the John Higbee Glass Co. is the LACY DAISY cov'd condiment or mustard which was produced ca 1908. $55
Model Flint Glass Co. of Albany made the Peerless pattern ca. 1896-1902.  This little pot has the slotted lid. $68

    Beginning as early as the 1850s some flint patterns had as one of their forms, a set of castor bottles which included a mustard castor. According to Larry, the different castors were reportedly kept in the pantry and depending on the meal, different castors were set on the table in a metal holder. On the left is one such early pattern, DOUBLE WEDDING RING, probably from the 1860s - '70s and on the right is a vaseline or canary castor in the DAISY & BUTTON pattern probably from the 1880s. The makers of both these patterns are unknown to us.