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That's
What They Called It Then ...
Way Back When! |
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here's what we call it Now! This lesson is courtesy of Dr. James Measell and will help with very often confusing terms used long ago, some of which are still used today by pattern glass folks. The original terms are on the left hand column and they are taken from original factory catalogs, company advertising, editorial copy in glass tableware industry trade journals or American Flint Glass Workers Union documents. Item names in wholesale catalogs (Baltimore Bargain House, Butler Brothers, or G. Sommers) are not reported here, for they often differ from factory terminology and may have little or no relation to it. The terms more likely to be used today are listed in the right hand column. |
| Original Term ca. 1890-1910 | Today’s Collectors’ Terms |
| berry dish |  |
berry dish, sauce; sauce dish; flat sauce |
| bowl [with foot] or comport |  |
compote |
| bowl [with foot] and cover |  |
covered compote; marmalade |
| butter and cover |  |
covered butter; butter dish |
| cake salver or cake stand |  |
cake stand; footed cake plate |
| card tray |  |
plate |
| celery tray |  |
celery tray; oval bowl; oblong bowl |
| comport | |
compote |
| comport & cover |  |
covered bowl; marmalade |
| cream or cream jug or hotel cream* |  |
creamer; cream pitcher |
| crimped berry dish |  |
fluted sauce |
| cup or custard |  |
punch cup |
| hotel sugar* | covered sugar bowl | |
| jug or water jug |  |
pitcher; water pitcher; milk pitcher |
| stand lamp |  |
oil lamp; kerosene lamp; lamp |
| molasses can or jug |  |
syrup pitcher or jug |
| nappie or nappy |  |
bowl; sauce; flat sauce; ice cream dish |
| oblong dish |  |
rectangular dish |
| oil or vinegar or oil bottle or vinegar bottle |  |
cruet |
| olive dish |  |
handled nappy |
| oval dish or oval plate |  |
pickle dish; relish dish; flat pickle dish; flat relish; tray |
| pepper bottle |  |
pepper shaker |
| pickle jar and cover or spoon and cover |   |
covered sugar bowl (L); covered pickle jar (R) |
| water jug |  |
quart milk pitcher |
| salt or pepper bottle; salt shaker; hotel pepper bottle* or hotel salt* |  |
salt shaker; salt and pepper |
| spoon or spoon glass |  |
spooner; spoonholder; open sugar |
| sugar and cover | |
covered sugar bowl |
| toothpick |  |
toothpick holder; match holder |
| vase |  |
parfait; vase |
| vase and cover | covered parfait, covered vase |
* intended for use on hotel tables serving groups of diners,
these articles are typically
larger in capacity or of somewhat different shape than those intended
for household use.
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