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Washington Times (USA), 1912
Pottery Gazette (UK), 1911
Pottery Gazette (UK), 1929
Washington Times (USA), 1912
Pottery Gazette (UK), 1911
Pottery Gazette (UK), 1929
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Washington Times (USA), Easter 1912
This super Imperial Lustre Rose fernery, advertised in the 1912 Washington Times with the Fig Newtons and the Peanut Butter was FREE. Just spend 50 cents on tea, coffee, spice or baking powder at A&P and take a free fern dish in “Opalescent Aurora Glass” too. The timing was perfect too, to capture extra Easter sales.
The fernery is an elegant item that was showcased by the ad in the newspaper, yet the description as "opalescent" was clearly wrong. The key lies in the words “Aurora Glass", which was one of the phrases used to describe Carnival before it acquired its current, familiar title. |
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Pottery Gazette, August 1911
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The British Pottery Gazette ran this advert in August 1911.
The items featured are all from Imperial: two Imperial Grape bowls and a Ripple vase. Other ads by Markt, the wholesaler/importer for Imperial’s Carnival Glass, appeared in the Pottery Gazette around this time. It must have been a very successful advertising campaign, as all three items are often found in the UK, in all sizes (including the funeral vase) and almost all colours. |
Pottery Gazette (UK), February 1929
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The 1929 British Pottery Gazette carried this wonderful ad for Sowerby’s glass – you can see a Sowerby Drape vase at the bottom of the advert.
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