Besides the Adams Rib pieces discussed yesterday (post here and page here) I have had only three pieces that I knew were from Diamond Glassware in our store over the last 15 years, a Victory plate and center handled server and a nifty candle holder with a wavy base.
Diamond made Victory from 1928 until they closed in 1931 in all the typical colors, amber, green, pink, some blue and black. I’m not wild about black glass but it does look sharp on a pattern like this especially when combined with other colors.
This plate was badly worn. Patterns that have wide open spaces tend to show wear worse than those with a busier design. But even with the bad photo you can see the basic design: Little notches around the outside rim and wide fluted panels on the rim and a plain center. Plate has a ground base rim.
Here is the sandwich server. Please forgive the poor photos as I took these before learning to photograph glass (yes, it’s tricky.)
The third piece was a delight, this neat green candle holder with a wavy base. I bought it knowing “I’d seen it somewhere” – do you ever do that? Don’t all glass lovers? I think it’s a general symptom! But for once my memory was pretty good and I found it right away in my Diamond Glassware book by Heacock, Measell and Wiggins . Such a lovely little thing!
It’s likely that we’ve had pieces from Diamond Glassware go through that I didn’t recognize as Diamond. There are a couple books about glass from this company, which always helps collectors, but since they went out of business in 1931 they did not make many patterns in full sets. (Companies started producing extensive glass dinnerware sets in the late 1920s.) That makes it harder to keep a given pattern in your head, instead of recognizing a design motif you have to be familiar with shapes and colors enough to recognize a given bowl or whatnot.
Do you have any pieces from Diamond Glassware?