Here is a Vintage Contemporary Signed L.S.Smith (Pinwheel and Hobstar)  Amethyst Carnival Glass Creamer. this creamer is 3 1/2″ tall which is near the rim of the spout by 5 1/2″ long from the stout to the end of the handle by 3 5/8″ wide across the top rim by 2 3/4″ across the base. Inside bottom is signed with the letter (S) and this creamer has (4) mold marks were it was Fused together. This creamer is Pre-owned by Me, I have been collecting Carnival Glass for over 45 years and in the near future my collection of over 650 plus pieces will be coming up for Auction. This L.S.Smith Creamer is in Great condition with NO Chips, Cracks or Flea Bites.
The L.E. Smith Glass Company was founded by “Lew” Smith in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, in 1907, the company is better known for the glassware
it produced from 1910 to 1921 at its factory in nearby Mount Pleasant. There, L.E. Smith manufactured mustard jars (along with the mustard that filled them), fruit jars,
jelly jars, and headlights for Henry Ford’s Model T,
among many other products.
By 1920, Smith, whose namesake founder had left the company in 1911, had purchased a new factory in Greensburg, which is a bit closer to Jeannette than Mount Pleasant. It was in Greensburg that the company made a range of milk glass
pieces, from figural animals
to vases and planters. L.E. Smith was also known for its small novelty glass items, from tiny pianos
and pistols to diminutive telephones,
many of which were sold as containers for candy.
Other mainstays of the Smith catalog during these years were lamps,
both oil
and electric, whose pressed-glass shades and bodies were manufactured in a range of colors. Smith even made electric lamps in the shapes of sailboats,
melding novelty with utility.
In the 1960s, Smith re-issued a number of its own prewar lamps, and by 1971 it had finally jumped back on the carnival-glass
bandwagon that had begun in 1907 by Fenton
and in 1908 by Northwood.
The first pieces of L.E. Smith carnival glass were actually commemorative plates bearing the profiles of John F. Kennedy
and Abraham Lincoln. Plates honoring Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, a nod, presumably, to customers living in the former confederate states,
followed, as did the plate showing the back of a Morgan silver dollar.
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