824-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 10, 2003
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THE ANTIQUE
DETECTIVE
Anne Gilbert
Many Types, Makers
Of Cameo Glass
Many names come to mind
when “cameo glass” is men
tioned. Among them the English
man John Northwood, French
makers Emile Galle’ and Au
guste and Antonin Daum In
America Gillinder and Sons,
Bakewell, Mt. Washington and
Northwood made their versions.
The first examples of cameo
glass were recorded in ancient
Rome.
The only remaining example is
the “Portland Vase” with its neo
classic figure subject. It is dis
played in the British Museum.
The technique was all but forgot
ten until the Chinese began ex
perimenting, combining wheel
cutting and engraving on opaque
glass.
Today it is known as Peking
glass. This overlay or cased glass,
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in two or more colors was in gen
eral use in China by the early
18th century. But not until it was
made in Europe in the mid-19th
century, did it become known as
Art Glass. The leading makers
were in France, England and
America. However fine examples
were also being made in the vari
ous glass making cities of Italy,
Venice and Murano, among
them. A version was also made in
Bohemia.
Basically the process involves
taking two or more glass blank
layers, blown and fused together.
Next, the piece was placed in a
hydrofluroic acid solution that
removed the shine. Then, the
glass was painted with a design
and dipped once more into acid.
The acid ate away the back
ground, leaving the varnished
section. The remaining design
was was wheel-engraved or cut.
1855 Farm set - plow, disk, spreader, wagon w/barn box; Oliver 555 tractor, MM-G 1355 w/duals, #5O baler, pull
type com picker, (4) sickle bar mowers, (2) transport disk, wagon, Hubley crawler 1960’s Ertl stake bed truck - I.H. backhoe, 77 w/man -
no/box, 1855 tractors, old farm toys to restore.
1950’s & 6ft’s Oliver Toys - N. 1.8.
4 - 255’5, 4 -270’s, 4- WD’s, 2 - 135’s, 2 - 155’s, 2 - 180’s, 9700 white combines, heritage set, white pick-up trucks;
white tractor desk & wall plaques, several of each of above tractors.
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1/16 Farm Toys; Stieger CP 1400 & versatile 895 4 WD’s, diaper Kubotas, Ford farm set, 1/16 Ertl Ford collectors & shelf model tractors, N.H. 100
anniversary models. (2) sets of 1980’s scale models Threshermans series tractors including: Rumely, Forlecih, Case 20-40, Case steam engine, Huber,
Coop, JD-G, GP, A, D, Farmall regular, F-20, 10-20, Oliver 80, 70, 500, MM Comfort King, MM Twin City, N.H. engine.
Oliver literature: 30+ pcs. tractor sales including: Hart Parr, 60, 70, 80, 99, 550, 70 Standard, 1855 & more. Over 100 pcs. implement sales literature
from 40’s - 60’s, 100 + Oliver shop, parts, & open manuals 60-99, Oliver HP, 55, 1600-1900, 550-1850, almost every model Oliver made, 30+ white trac
tor operator, parts, & shop manuals, Oliver & White service bulletins, Oliver Binder & price lists, several different horse drawn sales, parts books w/color
plates
Literature: 1950’s Massey Tractor operator manuals, 1950’s N.H. price list, 1950’s & 1960’s N.H. sales list, 100+ pcs. Ford Ferguson Imp. sales list.
Oliver Tractors: 28-50 HP crossmotor, 18-28 HP, 1937 HP 70,440, Super 44, 88 RC, 66 RC w/3pt, HG Widetrack, 80 RD, (2) 70 RC, 60 RC, 60 Standard
Fordson Tractors: 24 Fordson, 26 English Fordson, Previous listed tractors are all gas & all are restored to excellent show condition.
Oliver tractors not restored: White 244 FL forklift gas 21’ lift excel, org., Oliver 550 w/loader excel, org., 18-28 HP crossmotor for parts, Oliver 77
w/hyd., Oliver Super 77 w/hyd., Oliver 60 w/mech. lift & cultivators
Ford Truck: 1932 Ford 1 1/2 ton dump truck 4 cyl. org. running cond.
Parts: 70, 60, 70HP, 577, 555 parts tractors, parts for 77, 1650, 1750, 1955, 1855 & more, Oliver side curtains, grills, hoods, wide front, fenders, mani
folds, lights, seats, steering wheels, mags, hitches, weights, brake, clutch, air cleaners, water pumps, NOS Delco Remy parts & much more, specialty tools
for working on tractors 1940’s Oliver through White Signs: Oliver Sales & Service sign aprox. 2’x6’, Oliver plow sign round, (2) square Oliver & (I)
white clock, lighted white equip, sign, white sign panels & other misc. signs, Oliver straw hats, Oliver HP copper tub washing machine, Oliver wood
plow beams & handles & more Oliver Pedal tractors; 880 nice org., 1855 w/white decal nice org., 1850 & 1800 to restore, trailer
Hit - n - Miss Engines Antique Farm Items
Engines: New Holland shp on org. truck w/burrmill nice org. paint, New Holland 2 Hp nice org. paint, McCormick Deering 3hp M on truck restored,
Stover 1 1/2 hp on truck, Hercules 1 1/2 hp on truck, NH burr mill
Model Rumely Oil Pull w/IHC LB engine
Bone grinder, hand crank cabbage cutter, walking plows, copper kettles, wood wheel grain drill, one row corn planter, wood cog
seed cleaner, Letz mill, straw cutter, forge & anvil, wheelbarrow seeders, broad axe, grain cradle, potatoes grader, jugs, antique gas lanterns, wooden tubs,
milk cans, hand seeders & more
me Farm Items:
Dir: Rt 30 4 1/2 miles west of York, Pa at light take Rt. 616 south 4 1/2 miles to Rohrbaugh Rd,
Memorial Day Mon. May 26 2003 9:00 am
4073 Rohrbaugh Rd., Seven Valleys, York Co., Pa ~ 18 Tractors, Equip., & Parts
Oliver Tractors: 1960 440 repainted nice, 1951 super 44 disassembled, 1958 550 nice org., 1955 Super 55, older repaint, 1955 Super 55 rebuilt, disas
sembled, 1955 Super 55 low hrs., needs restored, 1953 OC6 crawler 68”, 1953 RC 77 runs exec., 1941 RC 60 exec. orig. straight, 1950 RC 66 exec. orig.
straight, 1937 HP 70 Santa Anna rear cast wheels, NR, 195? RC 88 factory WF, 3pt, fender ext., NR, 1943 RC 70 orig., 40” rubber and tip-toes, (2) 1950
RC 77’s, 1941 RC 70 parts, 1947 RC 70 parts
Tractors: 1930 Irish Fordson w/winch RP, JD 140 patio tractor, blue and white, runs good, w/white mower and blade
Oliver Equipment: 3242 3pt 3btm plow; 10ft drag harrow; 2 row 3pt. culti; 3pt. boom sprayer drum with Ohver/Iron Age logo wheel weights, culti
w/hydro lift, Oliver flat bed wagon w/dump, 2 btm 214 plow, Oliver 1510 loader, Farquhar loader, etc.
"arm Equipment: Woods MDBO pull mower; New Idea 3pt 7ft pto & belt sickle bar mower, JD 9ft transport disc; 10ft cultipacker; spike harrow; 12 ft
preader Oliver Parts; 66-77 D side panels (nice), misc. sheet metal, wheel weights, 55 front weight, NOS corn picker & equip, parts, plow shears,
& more Misc.: misc steel & angle iron, 3/4 military trailer, 14’ truck storage body, 1964 truck frame w/Detroit engine, wagon load of misc. farm related
items
All announcements day of auction take precedence over printed material. Terms; Cash or good check seller: Dill MantZ
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Fri. May 23 2003 5:00 pm
Norman D. Clark & son Former Oliver Equip. Dealer 1946 to 1995
Toys & Literature Honey Grove, Juniata Co., Pa.
section ‘of Route 75 & 850. Honev Grove. Juniata Co.. Pa 14 miles sou
Sat. May 24 2003 9:00 am
Norman D. Clark & Son Former Oliver Equip. Dealer 1946 to 1995
Located at the intersection of Route 75 & 850. Honey Grove. Juniata Co. PA 14 miles south of Port Rov
20+ Tractors, Signs, Clocks, Pedal Tractors, Parts
The quality depended on the tal
ents of the craftsman.
CLUES: In England John
Northwood is one of the most im
portant artisan.
After many years of experi
menting. he produced his first
piece of Cameo Glass in 1860,
using a neo-classical subject. His
most well-known piece was the
first replica of the Portland vase.
It took him three years to
carve it. His final work, done in
1882, the Pegasus vase, is consid
ered his finest. Price-wise it went
up and down over the years, be
fore ending up in the National
Collection of Fine Arts, Smithso
nian Institution, in 1929.
For the most part English
Cameo Glass can be recognized
by the “Wedgwood” type, neo
classical subjects.
Totally different was the
American Cameo Glass of the
1880 s. It was the result of a new
technique making transfer-print
ed designs with acid-resisting
inks.
These were then applied to the
glass surface before it was bathed
in the etching fluids.
The result was a small, raised
cameo design. For the most part
the designs were florals and foli
w
age. By 1880 Gillinder and Sons
were making a few pieces. Wil
liam L. Libbey of the New Eng
land Glass Company developed a
process using pressed and blown
glass to create a cameo effect.
What is considered the finest
Cameo Glass was made in
France during the Art Nouveau
Period (1880s-1914). Using the
then popular Oriental motifs,
French glass artisans often com
bined pieces with colored enam
els and metallic oxides.
Examples by Emile Galle’ and
the Daum brothers can sell at
auction for five figures.
Of course, lesser pieces have
sold for $5OO or under a thou
sand dollars.
Reproductions have been made
since the 1970 s of Daum. Inferior
pieces can have faked signatures.
Although there are many other
French Cameo Glass makers who
worked at the same time, such as
Leverre, De Vez and D’Argental,
they sell for a fraction of the rec
ognized “masters.” Don’t over
pay for a piece just because it is
cameo glass.
The French always signed
their pieces, unlike the English
and Americans.
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Signed Galle’ triple over
lay Cameo vase. Photo
credit: James Julia, Inc.,
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