The service, quality, and pricing they provided was as good as it gets., Incredibly knowledgeable staff, very eager to help however possible. Over the ensuing years, records and old catalogs have been discovered giving the OMN (Original Manufacturers Name) but in many instances, it was too late. EAPGS Pattern Index The majority of EAPG is found in clear glass, but many other colors are found. information about EAPG or suspected EAPG items they would like identified using Glass was first pressed in the 1830s. Although I used the phrase most heavily in the text (implying there was not an abrupt end to EAPG production in any specific year, but gradually decreasing popularity), I have changed the date 1910 to 1915 in the paragraph at the top of this page. who wish to have full access to the subscribers area of the website and full One good guess might be connected with the idea of the level of taxes levied on vases. Thank You, Artin . Because of the high cost involved Do not ask us for values. As the website matures, this database will grow to The definition of EAPG in its simplest form is: glass dishes pressed into a mold, in America, between 1850 to 1910 in sets, such that all the pieces of the set match in design. B in a diamond mark on inside of Star & Dewdrop master salt dish in vaseline glass, made in 1994. consultant, is checking this site for errors, With full-color, high-resolution, digital images of 10,492 Early American Pattern Glass items (representing 3,112 patterns), members can search the EAPG database to learn pattern names, manufacturer, manufacturer's pattern number, years manufactured and other important information in identifying items or potential items in their collection. ----- go to our Contact page and snail mail us a photograph, or an image made by laying a piece of your glass on a copier & scanning it, or a 'rubbing' of the pattern elements using a soft lead pencil on thin paper, or Libbey Glass Company Cursive L mark on the base of a Gibraltar pattern tumbler in Spanish Green (sage green), Brockway Glass Company base of 1983 amber beer bottle, Sapphire Blue Eastlake Childrens Mug, made by Atterbury & Company of Pittsburgh in the 1880s. Atterbury EASTLAKE bird mug in pink alabaster or pink clambroth, made circa early to mid-1880s. Flint EAPG Pattern Glass for sale Early on, a few, now precious flint pieces were colored deep cobalt blue, amber, various shades of green, canary (what we now call vaseline) and a deep, rich amethyst. to be a resource for its subscribers in pattern identification and researching Early American Pattern Glass, also known simply as "pattern glass", "pressed glass", or Victorian glass, is pressed glass tableware (& some related novelty glass items) made during the Victorian period ca 1850-1910, only in America, in goblets and in "sets" such that all of the pieces in the set match in design. Copyright A spooner also called a spoon holder or even a spill. info@eapgpatterns.com. manufactured, and glass characteristics (such as "ruby", "blush" amber, milk, EAPG is an acronym for EARLY AMERICAN PATTERN GLASS, also known as Pressed Glass.Using metal molds that enabled lower costs of manufacturing, it reached its peak around mid-19th to very early-20thC. Bread plates, which were made in most patterns but also in some stand alone designs, are. Undamaged is our preferred term for EAPG which has not suffered any of the post-making above-mentioned harm. Learn how your comment data is processed. The two most obvious are Early American Pattern Glass and EAPG, but it is also referred to in the literature and in current vernacular as pressed glass, pattern glass, old glass, Civil War glass, Victorian glass, and even Early American Pressed Glass.