Cox & Lafferty ad, January 5, 1911
In "Sell me some Imperial Glass!", we show a series of contemporary adverts for Imperial Carnival Glass from 1910-1911, by which time, Carnival was clearly well established in production. The ads were placed by Cox & Lafferty, a New York Representative for Imperial, but the selections were being made up and despatched directly from the factory.
Here is the ad from January 1911 shown full size so that the detail can be seen clearly.
The shades are Four Seventy Four (#474, OMN La Rochelle), often wrongly referred to as "Mayflower", and Starlyte.
To date, we only know of one Carnival example of the shade #358. It is the electric size, in marigold.
Cox & Lafferty image originally from the New York Public Library, digitised by Google.
To date, we only know of one Carnival example of the shade #358. It is the electric size, in marigold.
Cox & Lafferty image originally from the New York Public Library, digitised by Google.