Featured Victorian Shakers and Condiment Sets

Thanks for that. I was imagining something like puzzle mug where you have to know the secret to get it to pour properly.

 

I realized that I do have a glass shaker! Cut (and probably ABP) with sterling collar and shaker top. In the picture you'll see a second sterling top next to it. I got these at a family-run estate sale a couple years ago. In one room there was an enormous display of glassware, most of it uninteresting to me. But in the midst of it was this single shaker and a little way over the top by itself. I asked if anyone remembered a second shaker. Nope. So they gave me the second top for free. The complete shaker was only $1!

 

In the interest of variety, here are some chocolate glass examples in which most are hard to come by.
1st is Chrysanthemum
2nd is Ribbed
3rd is Geneva
4th is Leaf Bracket

 

Here are a few sets in silverplate holders

 

Mt Washington produced many different lines of glass in their day. One is a type called Colonial Ware. Shakers are almost unheard of. Here are two sugar shakers and are marked!

 

Phoenix glass produced some of the most colorful glass of the period. They produced a line of barrel shaped sugar shakers in all sorts of glass.

 

Sorry, goofed that one up

 

This set is produced by Mt Washington. This highly unusual decoration are miniature works of art. May have been produced for a ships captain's family?

 

Thanks, I will post some more amberina down the line.

 

Here is a neat pair!

 

Here is a most unusual Mt Washington Egg. Its blue opaque all the was through, its not decoration.

 

Here are a few more Amberina

 

Great thread, A question for you, I am working with a client to sell a collection of shakers, there are some that are in pairs and some are singles, should I list the pairs seperatly or as pairs? My thought was that the overall price for my client would be higher by selling individually.

 

Hi,
You would need to know what the value of the shakers that are in pairs. There are collectors of singles and of pairs. However, if you have a pair of shakers that are of great value, you may want to list those separately for two reasons. The first is there is a chance for more that one person to have the opportunity to get one and the second is that listing two big money items together makes it more difficult to get the money you are looking for because of the high value. That drops it down to much fewer people bidding it up too high.
I hope that makes sense,

Scott

 

Just caught up with the photos, Wow, they are all beautiful! I really like the Mt Washington set with the ship, the chocolate glass ones, and the double bubble ones.
Thanks for showing these, can't wait to see more!
Mary

 

Glad that you like them. Yes, the ships are pretty special, I have never seen another pair. That makes me believe that they were special order.
I will be posting more this weekend.

Scott

 

Here is an interesting item I picked up a while back. As a shaker collector, its interesting to have the device that create a shaker. This shaker mould is for a Fostoria Coin shaker, a later version not the original, perhaps the 60s, 70s? Im not totally sure but in my experience you do not see these things just lying around. They are held by glass companies or the earlier, much earlier ones were destroyed or lost in time.

 

Here is a most unusual shaker. I believe that sometimes when items are designed experimental pieces are created. The shaker on the right is the correct Reverse Swirl pattern that was the production piece. The name was derived by the opalescent swirls going in the opposite direction from the moulded swirls in the glass. The shaker on the left was a piece that has the opalescent swirls and the moulded swirls go in the same direction. This example is the only one that I'm aware of. It makes for an interesting optical illusion! However its not, its real!

It was produced by the Buckeye Glass Company.

 

Those swirl shakers are very cool Scott!