Previously not much attention has been paid to the Heart Series by collectors. These are of rare beauty when gathered in sequence. They were among the most popular plates of the time. They were called the Sentiment or Valentine cup plates and were more often given as tokens of regard than any other designs.
CONVENTIONAL
Plate XIII
Colored cup plates were issued in smaller numbers but were not found practical because of the expense connected with their manufacture. Many people considered them not in good taste for table use but the opalescent conventional plates were more popular. These have necessarily become rare and the collector who goes in for colored plates to any extent has a hard undertaking to make his series complete. A conventional plate popularly called “The Wheel of Fortune” seems to have been made in lovely shades of lavender, green, amber, mauve, and blue.
Tints or “off-shades” are much sought after by collectors in cup plates. These color variations were produced by the chemical reaction of an over-dose of one of the ingredients in the mixture—a “mistake” in composition.
Of the hundreds of conventional designs we have tried to [illustrate] only a few of the unusual and particularly lacy ones.
The author illustrates 78 different cup plates, trusting that the reader will appreciate the effort made.