A nice example of the classic rooster-topped glass cocktail shaker by Paden City Glass Company. This example is highlighted with wheel-engraved floral decoration on the body. The figural stopper is well-modeled with good detail to the rooster.
Origin: America, ca. 1925. Condition: excellent, no chips or cracks. Size: 13” tall.
A nice Art Deco cocktail shaker in cobalt blue glass with the traditional chrome top. The bottom has a polished concave pontil—always an indicator of quality glassware. The size is smaller than most shakers of this sort and is ideal for making a batch of just one or two cocktails.
Origin: America, ca. 1930. Condition: excellent, no chips or cracks, no splits in chrome. Size: 9” tall.
Very nice Art Deco glass cocktail shaker in an unusual globe form. The side is hand-enameled with a colorful prancing rooster. The shoulders and rim are decorated with gilt lines. The shaker has a hammered silverplated cap with a built-in cork-lined strainer.
Origin: probably Czechoslovakia, ca. 1920. Condition: excellent, no cracks or chips, decoration intact, wear to plating on cap. Size: 8-1/2” tall.
Clear glass cocktail shaker decorated with playful pink elephants and stars. This design is popular and highly sought after. The shaker has its original chrome beehive top. 10-1/2 inches tall. Condition: glass is perfect; light wear to the chrome plating of the lid.
Art glass vase featuring swirls of dark bluish-green glass against a amber-yellow background. The overall look is very handsome. The base has a polished pontil.
Origin: probably American, circa 1970. Condition: excellent, no chips or cracks, appropriate wear on base. Size: 4-1/2" high; 5-1/4 diam.
Lovely glass paperweight button featuring a swirled pink and white rose set off by three green leaves and adventurine on an opaque white ground.
Origin:Possibly Charles Kaziun, Brockton, Mass., ca. 1950s but more likely Czechoslovokia, 1920's. Charles Kaziun produced this same style paperweight button with 4 leaves instead of three and with a looped wire shank without a shankplate. Condition: mint. Size: 7/16" diam.
4 hand enameled cocktail glasses featuring colorful roosters. Unlike most rooster glasses, these do not depict a cock fight--so none of the glasses has a dead chicken on it!
The glasses have gilding along the rims and around the feet. Very colorful!
Origin: American, ca. 1930's. Condition: excellent condition, except the gilding has a bit of wear and one glass has a tiny nick at the edge of the foot. Size: 3-5/8" tall.