19th Century Glass Gold Boot #040
Miniature ’stirrup’ cup with rare attached handle. Very thin glass and very delicate, with no chips or cracks.
Hand-blown glass boot is approximately the size of this photograph and measures 1 5/8″ long, 1″ wide, and 1 7/16″ high, not including the handle. Circa 1880s.
The second photo is a better indication of the color of the boot.
This was purchased in the early 1990s at an antique store in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin and was a part of a 30 piece shoe collection begun by a woman in her eighties 50 years earlier. Five of these shoes were aquisitioned for the Lillian P Wood Memorial Collection, the oldest and most valuable being this little treasure. Purchase for $18.00 in 1992, not its estimated collector’s value is $50.00 to $60.00.
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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