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[Imaoldhippie]

@Oznell ..............On facebook there are many groups that  you can post a picture and there are many knowledgeable people than could possibly answer your question.

I am no expert by any manor of means but I dont think it is a bud vase.  Looks to wide.  

Have you tried putting the picture on Google search and see what pops up?

[Enufstuff]

@River Song @tends2dogs 

      How wonderful that you ladies have found a way to

utilize your salt cellars.

      I love your clever ideas to use them for pills and vitamins

and to display hand painted eggs in porcelain salt cellars.

      The hand painted Easter eggs must be beautiful and a lovely reminder of your mother-in-law.

      I have two pressed glass salt cellars and a tiny sterling silver spoon in one of them. They are just sitting on a shelf in my dining room. Perhaps I will use one to put out my daily vitamins. Good ideas.

[wagirl]

That would be coming home with me too!!! I LOVE old glass stuff --so not sure what a spooner is--- looks like a vase to me. Very interesting!! Wonder if a glass making place would know----where I live near Seattle there are many glass blowing places and Dale Chihuly has a shop here. 

[Boehm Collector]

@Oznell    according to Google it is a vintage Depression Glass vase with Iris and Herringbone pattern and iridescent color produced by Jeanette Glass Company, 1930's.

[Oznell]

@Imaoldhippie ,  good idea, Facebook is one place I haven't tried.

@Boehm Collector ,  I so appreciate you looking, (sweet of you! ), but in this case, google is not correct.  I actually have a piece of "Iris and Herringbone",  and it has a very distinctive look, with iris blooms against a "stippled" herringbone background.

Here's an image from online of my Iris and Herringbone water pitcher--

Am enjoying any and all of the guesses, suggestions, and experiences that posters have with glass ware-- fun.

I have a small collection of EAPG ( what is called "Early Amercian Pattern Glass, which is from the period of roughly 1850 to 1910.)  I have one or two pieces of Depression glass, which came later.  My Iris pitcher is Depression.

Then there's another whole antique category, American Brilliant Cut Glass.  It tends to have lead, be very heavy, and the designs are sharply cut into the glass, rather than being molded, like pressed or pattern glass.

Everyone is supposed to prefer the dazzle of brilliant cut, but for some reason I lean to the soft, muted feeling of old pressed glass pieces...  and you can't cut your finger on it!

Speaking of finding new uses for old pieces that you might have lying around, I did that with my pressed glass "cracker jar" by the Crystal Glass Co. in Ohio. The pattern is "Unnamed #8" (how imaginative) but could be called "Fan and Diamond Point".  Here's an online picture of it:

I got it minus the lid ( a lot of the lids on these old pieces go missing),  specifically because it would make a good small hurricane or large votive.  It's wide enough at the bottom to have a chunky flameless pillar in it....

[AuntMame]

This is such an interesting discussion! I've learned so much. 

I've learned that several of my dishes are spooners, and the nut/condiment dish is actually a pressed glass salt cellar with the "fan and diamond point" pattern, but it is entirely o.k. to use it to hold vitamins. 

Thanks, guys, for all this information!

[Boehm Collector]

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@Oznell wrote:

@Imaoldhippie ,  good idea, Facebook is one place I haven't tried.

@Boehm Collector ,  I so appreciate you looking, (sweet of you! ), but in this case, google is not correct.  I actually have a piece of "Iris and Herringbone",  and it has a very distinctive look, with iris blooms against a "stippled" herringbone background.

Here's an image from online of my Iris and Herringbone water pitcher--

Am enjoying any and all of the guesses, suggestions, and experiences that posters have with glass ware-- fun.

I have a small collection of EAPG ( what is called "Early Amercian Pattern Glass, which is from the period of roughly 1850 to 1910.)  I have one or two pieces of Depression glass, which came later.  My Iris pitcher is Depression.

Then there's another whole antique category, American Brilliant Cut Glass.  It tends to have lead, be very heavy, and the designs are sharply cut into the glass, rather than being molded, like pressed or pattern glass.

Everyone is supposed to prefer the dazzle of brilliant cut, but for some reason I lean to the soft, muted feeling of old pressed glass pieces...  and you can't cut your finger on it!

Speaking of finding new uses for old pieces that you might have lying around, I did that with my pressed glass "cracker jar" by the Crystal Glass Co. in Ohio. The pattern is "Unnamed #8" (how imaginative) but could be called "Fan and Diamond Point".  Here's an online picture of it:

I got it minus the lid ( a lot of the lids on these old pieces go missing),  specifically because it would make a good small hurricane or large votive.  It's wide enough at the bottom to have a chunky flameless pillar in it....

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@Oznell   sorry that Google was wrong.   I tried.  

[wagirl]

@Boehm Collector -- I have many depression glass items--LOVE the stuff--in pink, yellow, green, and blue. Just wish I could display it!! 

[Oznell]

I know you did, @Boehm Collector ,  and I appreciate the valiant effort!

[QVCisFun]

  @Oznell wrote:

I Love! your spooner celery vase.  I have been trying, for over a month now (since when you created this thread) to find out the pattern and the company that made it. Didn't find the answers.  Prior to your post, I had never heard of spooners or celery vases, or many of the other terms that I have since come across in my rabbit hole travels.

I tried your search terms and several other descriptors that I came up with and/or learned along the way, such as:  spill holder, plank, panel, fan, headdress, fish mouth, quill, banded, curled, scroll, swirl, tableware, Art Deco, Federal, Colonial, . . .  And as I researched, I would come across yet more terms, so more recently some of them are: coal scuttle, ice bucket, hod, oak leaf, helmet, and I am sure a lot more words and terms that I am forgetting.  I have looked at tons of photos online.

I looked to see if spooners come in matching sets or come with related pieces with other items and learned that they can, all kinds of things like butter dishes, creamers, sugar bowls, toothpick holders, . . . as additional ways to try to find the same pattern repeated in a differently shaped item in order to maybe find who manufactured this piece and the pattern name, or to search more pieces of that particular manufacturer.

So far have not seen a piece that incorporates several of the features of the mystery glass (curled handles, fanning ribs, curved band that goes side to side from one curl to the other curl, leaf or feather, scalloped top), just pieces that may have one or a few similarities but not enough to know if they are related and of same manufacturer.

Your SPRING FINDS thread gave me a "lightbulb moment" when I saw the oak leaf on a picture of a mug you posted with various tree leaves depicted and identified.  I thought the oak leaf looked a lot like the design on your mystery glass.

Through the rabbit hole travels I had earlier learned that the United States Glass Company (and maybe other glass companies too) made state patterns, and sometimes more than one pattern.  Anyhow, one thought is to look up what states had the oak tree as their state tree and then look for glass items that were made for that state, with the thought of finding pieces similar to the mystery glass.

The other thing with the mystery glass are the two curled handles.  They align with the side dip of the sloped rim.  Buckets sometimes have that design.  Maybe this had a handle piece that joined the two knobs that is no longer with the original glass piece.  Or maybe the knobs themselves were the handles.

Have been trying to figure out how to organize my thoughts and findings to write this long post, but it hasn't come easily.  I wanted to reply to you without putting it off any longer.  So the post may be a bit meandering . . .

Some of the ice buckets and coal scuttles have similar dimensions to the spooner.

Will just post some photos to show why they gave me ideas to research other avenues for trying to figure out the manufacturer and pattern . . . 

Some oak leaves:

Here is the mug from the SPRING FINDS thread with the oak leaf, mentioned earlier:

 

Some ice buckets:

Some coal scuttles:

Although not pressed glass, just showing this for the handle placement (at the side dip) and the shape of this coal scuttle:

When looking for antique pressed glass spooner celery vase, this image comes up with a link to an Etsy page that says "sorry, this item and shop are currently unavailable":