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Located in Mercersburg, Pa.
also known as; Salt Dips, Salt Cellars, Salters, Trenchers, Trencher Salts, Celery Dips and just plain old "Salts", We use the term "Open Salts" to differentiate them from the also collectible Salt Shakers sometimes called "Salts".
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Silver Salts with Glass inserts
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Description Here is a very nice sterling silver salt with a cobalt blue blown glass insert. It has english halmarks and is in very good condition. The glass insert is in good condition also and has a ground lip.
Inventory #01314-SS
Price $ 48.00 + S/H/I ORDER Contact Us
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Description Here is a very nice silver salt with a cranberry glass liner in very good condition. The silver cage does not have any makers marks that I can see. The silver is in good condition. The craberry insert has a small fea bite to the outside of the rim.
Inventory #01247-SPS
Price $ 65.00 + S/H/I SOLD
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Description Here is a very nice master salt. It has a silverplate cage in very good condition with a very nice Blue Opaline glass insert also in very good condition. I can find no makers mark on this salt. Lots of detail to the cage as you can see.
Inventory #01247-SPM
Price $ 48.00 + S/H/I ORDER Contact Us
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Description Now here is a cutie. This silver salt with cranberry glass liner has 4 little ball feet and a punched design to the cage. The cage is marked 905 on the bottom and is in very good condition. The cranberry glass liner is also in very good condition. I wish I had set of 8 of these, they would look great on the table at Christmas dinner.
Inventory #01247-ISPS
Price $ 56.00 + S/H/I ORDER Contact Us
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Description Silverplate double salt, In good condition with no chips or cracks. It has two halmarks stamped into the base that I can not make out.
Inventory #RKM-101-SP
Price $ 45.00 + S/H/I SOLD
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Description Silverplate salt with clear glass liner. Good condition with some silver loss.
Inventory #RKM-97-SD
Price $ 15.00 + S/H/I ORDER Contact Us
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Description Here is a nice sterling open salt with a cobalt blue glass liner. It is marked sterling 890 with a lion & sheild on the bottom. Both the cage and the glass liner are in good condition. The cage does have some tarnish inside under where the glass liner sits and a few small dings in the silver.
Inventory #1246-SS
Price $ 40.00 + S/H/I ORDER Contact Us
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Books of interest to the collectors of "OPEN SALTS"
5,000 Open Salts A Collectors Guide- by William Heacock & Patrricia Johnson
Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period 1825-1850- by L.W. and D.B. Neal
Ruth Webb LEE'S Sandwich Glass Handbook- By Ruth Lee
Salt Dishes- by Clark Brown
Open Salt Compendium- by Sandra/Nina Jzyk & Robertson
Allen B. & Helen B. Smith put out a series of 10 books on open salts as follows;
Book 1: One Thousand Individual Open Salts
Book 2: 650 More Individual Salts
Book 3: The 3rd book of Individual Salts
Book 4: Individual Open Salts the 1976 Annual
Book 5: Individual Open Salts the 1977 Annual
Book 6: Individual Open Salts the 1978 Annual
Book 7: 840 Individual Open Salts
Book 8: 1100 Open Salts Illustrated
Book 9: 900 Open Salts Illustrated
Book 10: 1334 Open Salts Illustrated
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OPEN SALT COLLECTORS CLUBS
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Chicago Area - Midwest Open Salt Society-------------------------
MOSS
Midwest Open Salt Society-------------------------
NESOSC
New England Society of Open Salt Collectors-------------------------
OSCAR
Open Salt Collectors of the Atlantic Region-------------------------
OSSOTW-NC
Open Salt Society Of The West - Northern California-------------------------
OSSOTW-SC
Open Salt Society Of The West - Southern CaliforniaIf you belong to, or know of a open salt collectors club not listed here, e-mail us with their information an we will list it here.
Insurance specially for Open Salt Collectors- We have not tried this because as dealers they don't cover our inventory. But it will cover collectors inventory so you may wish to check it out. CLICK HERE
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