Showing posts with label eggshell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eggshell. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Eggshell Cavalier is one of the six Eggshell shapes. 
Below are photos of Cavalier with the
Lily of the Valley CV-3 and Empire Grey decorations.


 Cavalier is well known to most HLCCA collectors,
but are you aware that not all Cavalier is Eggshell?
 Below is Celeste, which was created by combining Brittany cups,
plates and bowls with Cavalier hollowware.
 It was sold to The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company 
and other premium companies. 
Celeste pieces are not made from the Eggshell material 
and they do not carry the Homer Laughlin name or logo.
 

Although Eggshell Cavalier never had a coffeepot, one was created later. 
Below is a photo of Tiffany Rose CV-156 pieces,
which were sold to Business Incentives, as well as for other companies.
 Again none of the pieces use the Eggshell material. 
The coffeepot is unmarked, but the plate carries a HLC mark.

-- submitted by Jerry Lefever

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Swing

Swing was introduced with the wonderful Eggshell material,
but occasionally collectors might find Swing pieces that are not made 
with the eggshell material. 
  It appears that these pieces were made near the end of HLC’s eggshell material run, 
or after it was discontinued.  
Two examples are shown below:

The first is a Swing 8" plate with the Dubarry CP-133 decoration.
It was made for Cunningham & Pickett, Inc.
The plate carries a standard potter’s, not the usual mark, with the Eggshell logo.
A second gold mark shows that it was distributed by Cunningham & Pickett.
This plate weighs more than the Eggshell plate and has a lower pitched ring.


The second example is a Swing AD Coffeepot.  Changes were made to the side handle and the lid loop handle was changed to a knob.  Also a lid retention lip was added to the lid and a point was added to the spout side of the lid.  It is heavier than an Eggshell version and has a translucent china body.  Perhaps it used the same material developed for the Triumph shape.  The decoration and potter’s mark are platinum.  This might have been sold as an individual serving pot to commercial customers. 



Jerry Lefever