Mosser Vaseline Glass Slipper #037
This is a Vaseline Opalescent slipper from the Mosser Art Glass Company located in Cambridge, Ohio. It is one of a dozen pieces of Vaseline Glass that are in the Lillian P Wood Memorial Collection. Some of the other Vaseline shoes in the collection are catalogued #007 through #013.
This shoe pattern was introduced in 1973 and listed in the Mosser line as “Rose Slipper #117″. It is still in production, and is made in several colors including, frost, pink and blue. The shoe measures 5 3/4″ long and 3″ high. This shoe has no cracks, chips or crazing.
The shoe was purchased at auction for $15.oo in December, 2007. Its current estimated collector’s value is $30.00 to $35.00. It is featured on pages 158-9 in the book Collectible Glass Shoes by Earlene Wheatley, published by Schroeder Publishing, 2001.
Purple Slag Baby Bootie #029
This shoe was made by the Fenton Art Glass Company in Williamstown, West Virginia.It is a purple slag or purple opalescence baby bootie, and came in many popular colors.
Glass was made in a flat section and then folded over a mould to close the vamp.
Detail of side which is covered in daisy and button pattern.
Below, the center back of the shoe is without pattern.
This glass shoe was owned to BJ, the daughter of Lillian P Wood, who acquired it in the 1950s and she kept it in the shoe collection and transferred ownership to the collection after the death of Lillian, in June of 2000. The shoe is in excellent condition with only the markings you wouls expect from glassware that is over 50 years old.
Its value was placed at $35.00 to $50.00 in the Wheatley shoe book in 2001, and with rumors of Fenton Glass closing its operations, the values of Fenton novelties and glassware have risen 22% in the last 6 months. Estimated value present time is $55.00 to $ 75.00.
This exact baby bootie in the purple slag color is shown on page 178 of Collectible Glass Shoes by Earlene Wheatley, published by Schroeder Publishing, 2001 and is referenced in Shoes of Glass 2 by Libby Yalom, published by The Glass Press, 1998. There is a brief history in Fenton Glass The Second Twenty-Five Years by William Heacock, published by The Glass Press, 1994.
Antique Baby Bootie, circa 1890 #027
This amber baby bootie is a piece of early pressed glass, manufactured between the years of 1888 and 1900. The maker of this shoe is unknown.
Most of the bootie has a very fine diamond pattern. The vamp is horizontally ribbed as is a 3/4″ vertical line at the center back. This shoe was made in amber, sea green (nearly a blue) and pale green and several other colors. It measures 4 1/8″ long, 2 1/2 ” high and 2″ wide.
On the sole, The toe (lower half in below photo) is hollow and the heel is solid. There are no identification markings or stampings on the sole of the shoe.
A close up of the two flowers, the ribbed pattern to the left (vamp) and the diamond pattern to the right.
This shoe is in excellent condition, showing only the expected minute scratches in glassware this age. It was an acquired shoe of the Lillian P Wood Memorial Collection and was purchased by BP in September of 2000 at Delafield Antique Center in Delafield, WI. Purchase price was $45.00. Estimated value in 2007 is $100.
This shoe, in amber, is displayed on Plate 18, shoe 225 in Shoes of Glass 2 by Libby Yalom, published by The Glass Press, 1998 and is referenced in that book as well as in Collectible Glass Shoes by Earlene Wheatley, published by Schroeder Publishing, 2001 and Collector’s Guide to American Pressed Glass 1825-1915 by Kyle Husfloen, published by Krause Publications 1992. Information also from personal records.
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