![]() ![]() The book contained several pages of pattern or clear pressed glassįirst specialties were the State Series, & products of Duncan & Miller, Heacock's new book, '1000 Toothpick Holders'. The colored ones were several hundred dollars and I was paying onlyĪpril of 1980 I found a Texas aka Loop w/ Stippled Panels toothpickĪnd that led to my joining the National Toothpick Holder Collectors' Then in earlyġ970 I bought my first book on toothpick holders, 'Encyclopedia of Wallace Homestead books just to look at Pattern Glass. ![]() Metz' book on the subject and always got the new Its current value is about $175.įirst great interest was clear pattern (or pressed) glass. Inverted Loops & Fans and Tennessee aka Jeweled Rosettes shown at right and Others which are hard to find are Maryland aka MaineĪka Panelled Flower Stippled is the most elusive of the State Patterns.Īt recent auctions the Maine has sold in excess of $600. Have a pattern, did not have a toothpick holder as a part of the set. The verge of bankruptcy, used as a marketing strategy, naming patternsĪll states had a pattern named after them (indeed, not all presentĭay states had achieved statehood) and some of the states which did The US GlassĬompany, formed in 1891 of a number of glass companies who were on Were made in those now known as the States' Series. Of the most common and well-known patterns of EAPG toothpick holders Number of other glass houses from 1898 in clear, green and this rareīeaded Shell or Shell made by Dugan 1904 Set" which might also contain cruets, shakers,and/or a cov'd mustard.įeather, aka Indiana Swirl made by McKee & a Set in the Victorian period and they were sometimes a part of a "condiment Our discussion will be limited to those made of Early American Pattern Slivers were made in china, wood, metal and many other materials but Polite to pick one's teeth in public! The holders for the handy little Holders or simply "Toothpicks" as they are called by collectors,įirst appeared in the 1880's in America and only continued in vogue Four Pattern Glass Toothpick Holder Stores! ![]()
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