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Collectors Facts: Little Segment, aka Gominho. Esberard (South America)

Little Segment
Lidded comport and underplate (3 pieces)
Little Segment
Stemmed open comport

​Thanks to Claudio Deveikis for all the super pictures of Little Segment.
Shapes:

Lidded comport and underplate
Stemmed open comport
Colours:

Marigold
Marigold

Little Segment, aka Gominho, made by Esberard, Rio (South America).

Claudio reports two shapes in marigold, as shown above:

​Lidded comport and underplate (3 pieces): 21.5cm high (including lid) and 13.5cm in diameter (approximately 8.5 x 5.25 inches). The underplate is 17cm in diameter (approximately 6.75 inches).


Stemmed open comport: 10.5cm high and 17cm in diameter (approximately 4 x 6.75 inches)

The pattern was surely inspired by the many bay or laurel leaf designs that were popular in the early 1900s. for example, the 1907 St Louis catalogue shown below features a design that is very similar to the Little Segment design.
Little Segment and St Louis catalogue
Above: Little Segment on the left and on the right are two images from a 1907 St. Louis catalogue.
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There is also a remarkable resemblance - shown below - between Little Segment and the Riihimaki pattern known to Carnival collectors as "Laurel Band" (which was originally called Kara by Riihimaki). Finnish glass researcher, Roger Peltonen, reports that the mould for this pattern was with Riihimaki after 1921.
Little Segment and Laurel Band
Little Segment on the left and Riihimaki Laurel Band on the right.
Laurel Band, Riihimaki
Laurel Band, Riihimaki

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