Plate XXI
[6.] Octagon dish, 9 inch, bee hives in conventional center design with bees, often called “strawberry pattern” but upon examination the bees and bee hives are very distinct. This plate, 10 inch, was very popular and since the furor for collecting pressed glass numbers have come to light. It represents very beautiful designing and was in all likelihood sold as a cake plate. There are four large stars with four thistles around the bee hives in the center design.
[7.] Octagon dish, 7 inch, C, with the ship “Constitution” in the center and the word “Union” below, typifying a union sentiment against the junking of “old ironsides.” One of the rarest pieces of early Sandwich glass in existence.
[8.] Octagon Dish, 7 inch, C, Pennsylvania Steamboat in center. Companion piece to No. 7, very rare.
All the above large dishes match cup plates and must have been made for the most fastidious housewives of the period with that particular object in view.
[9.] Round plate, 8 inch, peacock feather border, three thistles and beautifully feathered scrolls in center.
[10.] Round deep dish, 8 inch, border of scrolls and twelve thistles. Center twenty rope circles with six pointed flowers two thistles on back ground and fine stippling.
