The Decorated Tumbler

by Hazel Marie Weatherman

The "Fun Book" identifies over 1400 hand and machine decorated tumblers, pitchers, bar-ware and related items from 1930 -1960. American glass companies researched and included in the book are:... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 091307411X
• ISBN13: 9780913074114
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Glassbooks
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Decorated Tumber

Drinking glasses from your childhood (if you're a Baby Boomer). So many colorful designs it will take you hours to look through.

Decorated Tumbler

I love this book! I am a big fan of Hazel Marie Weatherman books, particularly this one. Talk about Kitsch! I think she was way before her time when she started this catalogue of collectibles. If you love stripes, florals, pink elephants, 50's gold/black coins and diamonds, etc, you will love looking at this book. Almost any pattern from the 20's through the 70's from prominant to small, obscure companies are in this book. If you collect glassware or barware this is a must have. Get it now! You'll find what you need, and you may even have to get one for a friend.

"The Decorated Tumbler": Collectible Glassware of the Future

If you always wondered who made the multitude of decorated pitchers, glasses, and assorted barware from the 1940's to the 1960's that are never identified in any of the mainstream glass collector books, this book is for you. Don't be put off by the title - this book covers much of the inexpensive glassware in everyday use during this period for holding beverages, from water to the hard stuff, and includes ice buckets, cocktail shakers, and every type of drinking glass. (All the barware takes you back to a time when cocktail consumption was a hobby rather than a vice!) It also includes a few other items that matched the lines, including mixing and salad bowls, cookie jars, salt & peppers, oil & vinegar sets, and so on.Scottie dogs, polar bears, pink elephants, polka dots, playing card motifs, and a multitude of assorted florals and abstracts - they're all here. Ms. Weatherman (everybody's favorite Glass Goddess!) shows us 600 pages of original catalogs spanning 30 years of production. The book covers Bartlett-Collins, Federal, Hazel-Atlas, Anchor-Hocking, Jeannette, Libbey, Macbeth-Evans Corning, and the West Virginia Glass Specialty Company. There are also sections on Swanky Swigs, and items that remain of unknown make.Ms. Weatherman explains how these items were originally hand-decorated, beginning in the 1920's and 1930's: Bartlett-Collins once employed 100 women to handpaint their glassware, and Hazel-Atlas 290. Later on, with the advent of mechanization, this glassware was mass produced to meet increasing public demand. Kraft Cheese started this trend in 1933 with their Swanky Swig (reusable glass) collection. Later on, production techniques were refined until silkscreening became the decorating method of choice, a method still in use today.This is one of my favorite glass identification books, as I am particularly partial to the funky advertising art of the 1950's and 1960's. I was ecstatic to discover that an intriguing set of goblets I picked up at a yard sale was Libbey's Royal Fern from 1958. (As Ms. Weatherman states in her introduction, many of these items are "easy to find" and "easy on the bank account.") Just a few minutes spent with this book will enable you to identify the different shapes of the pitchers made by each company, even if you have to work harder to pinpoint an exact pattern. This book is worth every cent of its purchase price. It makes me feel like Sherlock Holmes every time I'm able to identify an obscure item!As Ms. Weatherman eloquently states the "(d)esigns are quaint and timely, colors bright and beautiful - and the aura is memory rich." If you were born in the 1960's or earlier, this book will take you down memory lane! Glassware with names like "Poodle Melody," "Sandwich Man," and "Hi Brite Zombie" - these are the collectibles of the not-too-distant future!

"Decorated Tumbler" A Real Winner!

The Decorated Tumbler, by Hazel M. Weatherman, the grandmother of Depression Glass research, was published in 1978. Most of the glass covered in it is from the 1940s through 1960s. In her "Foreword" Hazel describes the labor of love, and a great deal of fun, that brought about this book. Apparently, unbeknownst to the other, Hazel & her daughter Sue were both picking up various decorated glass tumblers & "go-withs", at the same time. Out of their love for the glass, and extensive research, was born this great book. It is a large paperback, with color pictures. Here lies the answer to many of your glass puzzles - that odd tumbler, those sugar bowls that you keep seeing but Florence doesn't mention, etc. The book is a collection of color pictures from glass company catalogs, documenting decorated tumblers, pitchers, barware, mixing bowls, cream & sugar sets and and a host of other glass items. Most are from the 1940s through the 1960s. Each chapter covers a single glass company, and there are seven of them, plus a section on Swanky Swigs. The companies covered are: Bartlett-Collins Federal Hazel-Atlas Hocking Anchor Hocking Jeannette Libbey MacBeth-Evans Corning West Virginia.