Northwood Grape and Cable Nutmeg Stained Custard Glass Plate circa 1914
(Photo taken outdoors with no flash.  More photos below.)
Classic Northwood Glass
Northwood’s
GRAPE AND CABLE (Interior)
BASKETWEAVE (Exterior)
Nutmeg Stained
Custard Glass Plate or Low Bowl
Approximate Dimensions:
7.25″(Diameter)
1.5″ (High)
3,25″ (Base Diameter)
Made by
Harry C. Northwood Glass Company
Wheeling, West Virginia
ca 1914
Source
:  Heacock, William, James Measell, and Berry Wiggins (1991),
Harry Northwood: The Wheeling Years 1901-1925.
Marietta, OH:  Antique Publications, pp. 128-129.
This
is an antique (circa 1914) custard glass
GRAPE AND CABLE (BASKETWEAVE exterior)
plate or low, shallow bowl hand-stained with a “nutmeg stain” by the Harry C. Northwood Glass Company circa 1914.
It is signed on the exterior center with the Northwood trademark “Underlined N In A Circle.”
Very Brief
Background on Northwood & Dugan.
Thomas
Dugan and his cousin, Harry
C. Northwood, started out in the 1880s as employees at the Hobbs-Brockunier Glass firm in
Wheeling,
West Virginia.  Eventually, Harry would form the
Northwood
Glass Company
of Wheeling, West Virginia and Thomas would form the
Dugan Glass
Company
of Indiana, Pennsylvania.
Both companies were kingpins of the
custard, carnival
and opalescent glass market in the early 1900’s.  Trading,
swapping, or “borrowing” one another’s glass moulds has been
speculated.  Both Northwood and Dugan-Diamond Glass shut down in the mid-1920s.
Condition.
This item is in
very good/excellent
condition with no chips, cracks, chiggers, or repairs.
There
are, of course, the usual straw
marks (“shearing and crimping tool marks”)
and internal air bubbles from manufacturing
commonly associated with the making of old EAPG, carnival, custard, and
opalescent glass.
The hand making, hand staining, and finishing of old glass assures that no two pieces are identical — each piece is truly unique.
… would
look
great alongside any Northwood, Dugan, Jefferson,  Millersburg, Fenton, Westmoreland,
Sowerby, Inwald, Imperial, or other
antique glass from the makers of fine opalescent, custard, carnival glass, and EAPG.
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