Old colors also include milk glass as well as amber, black, green and red. It is 4 3/4" high and made of opalescent milk glass. 13) with a ribbon around its neck and tied in a bow. In September, 1995, cobalt blue was the only color the new Gillinder Buddhas were available in.Īlso reissued from an old Gillinder mold was a solid figure of a dog (Fig. Old Gillinder Buddhas were not generally marked. The new Buddhas by Gillinder are marked up under the hollow base with the new script mark shown in Fig. The base of the Gillinder Buddha does not have the disc/pedestal. A round disc/pedestal extends from the base of almost all Cambridge figures. Cambridge Buddhas have large hanging earrings extending down to the shoulders the Gillinder Buddhas do not have earrings.ģ. Cambridge Buddhas have a distinctive bulge in the beaded headgear Gillinder pieces do not.Ģ. Here are some guidelines to use to separate Gillinder figures from the similar one made by Cambridge:ġ. (Cambridge also made a second style of Buddha but it is not likely to be a problem and is not part of our discussion.) To add to the confusion, a very similar Buddha figure was made by the Cambridge Glass Company during the 1920s. The same figure was reissued in cobalt blue. Gillinder Buddhas were first made in 1930 and appeared in a number of colors including green, amber and white. Both old and new are made of solid glass. Old weights are 3 1/4" dia., new are less than three inches, usually about 2 7/8". New pieces have clear sides and are frosted across the entire back. Nearly all known originals have frosted sides and only the portrait or area immediately around the portait are frosted on the back. The new paperweights can be detected by comparing their size and looking at what areas are frosted.
It is clear glass with a bust portrait impressed in the back side. The new Washington paperweight is virtually identical to the original issued in 1876 (see Figs. Most marks on our new samples were very faint and difficult to see examine suspect pieces with extra care. 3, as far as we know, has not been used on any glass made prior to 1990. To our knowledge the raised molded marks in Fig. Some, but not all, of the reissued pieces carry the mark shown in Fig. Following the company's 100th year in 1961, the paper label shown in Fig. Pieces made after the Centennial are rarely marked. Many, but not all, of those pieces are marked Gillinder & Sons or Gillinder & Sons Centennial Exhibition (Fig. About the only pre-1900 pieces that are marked were those made at the 1876 Centennial factory. Like the majority of American pressed glass companies, Gillinder did not mark much of its production line glassware. This article will point out features which will help distinguish early pieces from those of more recent manufacture. Since the new pieces were virtually identical to the originals, they may cause confusion. The firm produced six new pieces of glass from old molds or old styles in the mid-1990s. Family descendants continue to run the company today under the trade name Gillinder Glass, with Charles Gillinder as president. Gillinder is one of the few American glass companies to survive both world wars and the Great Depression. The business has been known under various names throughout the years including: Franklin Flint Glass Co. to very elegant 6" glass busts of famous Americans including Lincoln, Grant, Benjamin Franklin and Washington. Pieces made and sold there range from small novelties such as glass canoes, shoes, umbrellas, etc. Some of their most highly sought after items were produced at a glass factory Gillinder set up on the grounds of the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. These include: Westward Ho (Pioneer), Classic, Liberty Bell (Centennial Pattern), Holly Leaves and Stippled Star. William and his descendants designed and made some of the most popular pressed glass patterns of the Victorian era and early 20th century. The Westward Ho pattern refers to the etching on the bowl of the settler’s cabin and land, which portrayed a romanticized image of the progress of western land development.The name Gillinder has been associated with American glass since 1861 when William Gillinder started a glass factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Gillinder and Sons made this footed-glass compote with a representation of a kneeling Native American on the lid in 1879.
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