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Pickle Castors with Colored Glass Inserts
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Description: Pickle Castor/caster ; Vaseline Daisy & Button Jar set in a very nice Frame W/lid and tongs. Frame Marked Wilcox Silver Plate Co. 4624 The frame is in good Original Condition. The lid Has 3 buttons missing off the finial. The jar is very nice with only a couple small nicks to the rim.
Inventory # RKM682
Price $385.00 +S/H/I SOLD
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Description This is a very nice Victorian Pickle castor/caster by Barbour Silver Co. with a very nice decorated milkglass insert (paneled sprig - by Northwood Glass Co). The condition is very good with nice original silver. From the Harvey collection. This castor is pictured on page 172 of The American Pickle Castor book by Bernice Thach.
Inventory #PHC-7
Price $ 700.00 + S/H/I SOLD
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Description: Here is a great Pickle Castor with a very rare color insert. Over the years we have found that Emerald Green is one of the rarest colors for caster inserts. This one in the Zipper pattern (made by Richard & Hartly, Tarentum, Pa. Ca.1888) is set in a very nice frame made by the Philadelphia Plate company. Both the frame and the insert are in very good condition. I probably should keep this one for myself. The picture in no way does justice to this castor.
Inventory #01205-VPC
Price $ 685.00 + S/H/I SOLD
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Glass Companies and Silver Companies that produced pickle castors
Please note that this is just a list of the most common companies we have encountered and by no means a complete list. During the period that Pickle Castors were produced (1860 - 1910) there were hundreds of glass and silverplate companies in operation and many of them would have produced Pickle Castors for at least a short period. Also some of these companies went through several name changes during that time. We only listed the most popular name they used during this period so you may encounter several variations of their names.
Silverplate Companies that made Frames, Lids & Tongs
Acme Silver Plate Co., - Adelphi silverplate Co., - American Silverplate Co., - Aurora Silver Plate MFG. Company, - Barbour Brothers, - Barbour Silver Company, - Benedict Silver Plate Co., - Boston silverplate Co., - Bristol Plate Company, - Britannia Metal Co., - Brooklyn Silver Plate Co., - Derby Silver Co., - E.G. Webster & Son, - Empire Co. Silver Plate, - Forbes Silver Co., - Halleltons Co., - Hartford Silver Plate Co., - Homan Silver Plate Co., - James W. Tufts, - Meriden B. Company, Meriden Silver Plate Co., - Middletown Plate Co., - Monarch Silver Co., - M.S. Benedict Mfg. Co., - National Silver Plate, - New Amsterdam Co., - New Haven S.P. Co., - Oriental Silver Company, - Pairpoint Mfg. Company, _ Philadelphia Plate company, - Queeny Silver Co., - Racine Silver Plate Co., - Reed & Barton S.P. Co., - Rockford Silver Co., - Roger and Bros., - Roger Smith and Co., - Royal Silver Plate Co., - Shelfield Plate Co., - Simpson Hall Miller C0., - Standard S.P. Co., - Toronto S.P. Co., - Vanberg S.P. Co., - Webster & Son, - Wheeton Co., - Wilcox Silver Plate Co., - William Rogers.
Glass Companies That made the glass inserts for the silverplate companies
A. H. Hiesey, - Beaumont Glass Company, - Boston & Sandwich Glass Company, - Bryce, Higbee and Company, - Buckeye Glass Company, - Burlington Glass works, - Campbell, Jones Glass Company, - Consolidated Lamp and Glass Company, - Degenhart Glassworks, - Dugan Glass Co., Flint Glass Co., - Fostoria Glass Company, - George Duncan and Sons, - Hobbs Brockunier Glass Company,- Imperial Glass Company, - Jeanette Glassworks, - Jefferson Glass Company, - McKee Bros., - Model Flint Glass Company, - Mount Washington Glass Company, - National Glass Company, New England Glass Company, - Northwood Glass Company, - O'Hara Glass Company,- Pittsburg Glass Company, - Richard and Hartley Glass Co., - Riverside Glass Company, - U.S. Glass Company,
There were also some 3rd party companies (jobbers) that bought Pickle Castors from the silver plate companies and then Hand decorated them with Enamel Painted flowers, animals, birds or children before selling them to the stores. This was mostly done to colored glass inserts and made for some very beautiful and highly sought after castors. Most castors seen with this decoration have Cranberry or blue glass inserts but they are also sometimes seen in Green, Amber and clear Glass. Its not a well known fact but the founding Brothers that started the Fenton Glass Company got their start as a glass decorating company. It is speculated that they may have worked decorating glass at the Northwood factory and Hobbs Brockunier Factory for a short time before starting the Fenton Glass Company. With this in mind, those of you that collect Fenton pieces, it makes a person wonder, if that pickle castor in grandma's china cupboard with the nice Northwood decorated cranberry paneled sprig insert may just be,,,,maybe,,,,an example of Pre-Fenton, Fenton work....ofcourse thats just food for thought.
Notes of Special Interest
If you have a Pickle Castor that you would like to have resilvered, you may wish to check out the link below. They have resilvered several for us and we have been very pleased with their work. They also do repairs and give a 25 year guarantee.
Senti - Metal Co.
America's largest, most distinguished silver restoration company for over 65 years!
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Here is a book that we recommend for any Pickle Castor collector or Dealer.
"The American Pickle Castor"
Antiques dealer Bernice Thach of Wichita, Kan., collected pickle casters for 12 years before selling them to finance her book about them, The American Pickle Castor. (The book, featuring 500 color photos, is available for $39.95 plus shipping and handling by contacting Thach at ACCGC@cox.net or writing her at 4500 N. Ridge Road, Wichita, KS 67205. you can also contact her by phone at 316 - 722 - 5837
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