An elegant Art Deco ruby glass cocktail shaker with sterling silver overlay in a grapevine pattern. The glass has a very intense ruby coloring, and the bottom has a polished pontil-a reliable sign of quality glass. Each side of the shaker is enhanced with a stylized grapevine motif worked in sterling silver overlay. The shaker is finished with a chrome-plated top.
Origin: America, ca. 1935. Condition: excellent, all original, no chips or cracks, no splits to metal. Size: 11-1/4".
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.
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.
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.
