Anchor Hocking was an American glass products manufacturer, formed in 1905
Table Sweet Dish with lid
Anchor Hocking
Old Colony design with open lace top rim
Pressed glass (seams are clearly visible)
Circa 1935 - 1938
HOW BIG IS IT?
Medium size
Height (lid on) 15cm
Diameter at the outer edges of the lace trim 18cm
Diameter at the top of the sweet bowl 12cm
Depth of the sweet bowl 5cm
COLOURING:
This is referred to as a pink depression glass, very common (and low cost at the time) homeware produced by Anchor Hocking for general home use - these were tough times in the 1930's and keeping costs down was important.
The pink colouring in the glass is very subtle, in different lighting it can look very pale pink, to dark pink and even can have a slight orange hue at certain angles.
CONDITION:
This "lady of the table" is old, she has been around for 80+ years but she is in pretty good shape.
NO cracks
NO discolouration
NO scratch marks to the glass inside or out
HOWEVER, the outer lace around the top rim has some small chips in the glass. Let me try and describe these chips/slivers.
There are five of them in fact, they are ALL on the underside of the lace on the very edge.
Looking down onto the glassware you will struggle to see them, in fact we only noticed them when the dish is picked up and you can feel the glass in these spots is not nice and smooth like the rest of the lace pattern. This does NOT mean the area has sharp edges, there is absolutely no way these flaws will break the skin, its just that you can feel them.
Underneath they are still very hard to see, just a slight change in the reflected light from the glass.
I have attempted to show these chips/slivers in a couple of photographs, this is very hard to do but perhaps if you look very closely you will see what we are talking about.
There are no chips elsewhere on this glassware (the lid, the dish body, the base are all perfect)
Visually striking and unusual design with interesting colour effects at play as the ambient lighting/viewing angle changes.
