So that’s the pattern that we collect and I have just about everything made in that pattern. Both of their wives used the same pattern. My paternal grandfather was a physician in Arkansas and my maternal great grandfather was a minister & a circuit rider (who rode around and performed weddings and funerals in small towns where there was no minister) in Oklahoma. The people who owned pattern glass initially were people of the earth, merchants, farmers, and ministers. These people were not that kind of people. Some people think it was kind of a status symbol, but I’m not buying that, not for every pattern. It makes no sense, because they all ate tomatoes but there’s no tomato dish. Nobody can figure out why almost every pattern with more than a table set has a celery vase. Which is weird, because we’re talking about the 1850s through the turn of the century and it was poor people’s glass and poor people couldn’t afford celery. If there’s more than a table set in a pattern it will have a celery vase. It’s called a 4-piece table set, and that’s the rock bottom basic set. A table set is a spooner, covered butter, covered sugar, and a creamer. Basically, most patterns started with a goblet, some would have some table sets, which are the first serving sets a pattern would have. Many patterns were made only in a goblet or bread plate. Henderson: A couple of patterns were made in almost 100 forms. Prism column aka beaded coarse bars goblet by The U.S. We’ve bought mostly just in regular antique stores, but they’re going away! Collectors Weekly: How many forms are typically in a pattern? We’ve bought in the filthiest of the low down flea markets and from the highest antique stores in Houston. If I’m really looking for something I’ll contact one of 10 or 15 people I know who have large collections and see if they have it. There’s a lot of new toy sets made now but we only have the 19th Century ones. There’s maybe not more than 12 or 15 patterns that matched exactly in the toy sets. We also have a lot of toy pattern glass, hundreds of pieces because we buy it and nobody knows what it is (it’s children’s dishes made out of pattern glass). They’re hard to find and they’re not too large, especially mustard containers. Among other things I focus on pickle casters with original lids and covered mustard containers. My husband used to focus on toothpick holders, so we have more of those than anything. Henderson: We have a lot of forms since it’s such a big collection. Collectors Weekly: Do you collect all forms of Pattern Glass? I also have a virtual museum where people have sent me photos plus some of my own pieces. We didn’t realize when we started how many pieces would be necessary to make a pattern-matching service viable multiply the number of patterns by the number of forms of patterns and its a lot. There are a lot more forms that I haven’t completed yet, like butter dishes, creamers, pitchers, covered sugars, relish dishes, or compotes. The Pattern Glass School is the main site and I added the store and other sites to that. He was really the guiding force and got me a website thirteen years ago. My two sons were in computers, and one of them said that using a database and the Internet would be great for a pattern matching service, and he was right. When we first started we bought the wrong stuff sometimes, so those pieces we call tuition in our education process. I can go in an antique store and pick out pattern glass in about a minute and a half, so once you spend hours, days, and months learning it and buying it, you have knowledge that allows you to make wise purchases for resale. But a few years later I realized I couldn’t store and have everything that we wanted, and we realized we really liked it. We started buying about 19 years ago and I can’t exactly remember when I started selling. Croeses celery vase in Riverside Pattern c.
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