Milk Glass Fruit Bowl, Lancaster Colony Pitman Drietzer Lace Edge Large deals Fruit Stand

This is a sturdy bright white milk glass pedstal fruit bowl with a pretty looped or laced edge. For Indiana Glass, the term lace edge actually refers to the open loop design on the edge. Pieces made with the lace edge can have different patterns.

This large fruit bowl has a top diameter of 12 inches. It stands 7 inches tall. It weighs 4 lbs 10 oz.

The cake stand is in beautiful condition without damage. It would serve as a gorgeous dessert tray or table centerpiece!


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Company History:
Lancaster Colony Corporation's 16 subsidiaries manufacture a wide variety of products, including beach balls, automotive products, crystal stemware, and salad dressings. These products are sold to such steady retail and food industry customers as Kmart Corporation, Ford Motor Company, and the fast food chains Arby's and Long John Silver's. The corporation comprises three largely autonomous divisions: Housewares and Candles, Automotive Accessories, and Food Products.

The corporation was founded in 1961, when Ohio entrepreneur John B. Gerlach decided to organize the companies in which he was a major stockholder. He chose to incorporate them in Delaware, as subsidiaries under a central holding company he called Lancaster Colony Corporation.

Individually well-established, profitable companies, the new subsidiaries together represented a hodgepodge of manufactured items. Indiana Glass in Dunkirk, Indiana, specialized in decorative gifts and stemware, and Jackson Corporation was an Ohio-based producer of injection-molded plastic housewares. Lancaster Glass Corporation, an industrial supplier concentrating on components for televisions and scientific instruments, was also part of the lineup, as were National Glove, a source of work gloves, and Pretty Products, which turned out "Rubber Queen" kitchen and bath accessories and industrial components.

Although Lancaster Colony had no readily apparent focus, Gerlach, an experienced investor, had deliberately assembled this collection of manufacturers according to a personal maxim: all of his companies operated with common production techniques and distribution channels. This pragmatic principle also brought Pitman-Dreitzer & Company into the fold in the early 1960s. A manufacturer and importer of gift items and decorative glassware, Pitman-Dreitzer fitted the Gerlach strategy perfectly and offered merchandise suitable for giftware departments of retail outlets and boutiques.

Finely honed market and production strategy was only half of the 1960s success story for Lancaster Colony's consumer products. Just as important deals were cutting-edge production techniques, state-of-the-art facilities, and creative design, all of which kept the company's glassware and bath accessories competitive in a market whose products rapidly became obsolete due to the trendy tastes of home decorators.

Lancaster Colony was incorporated in Ohio on January 2, 1992.

Principal Subsidiaries: Colony Printing & Labeling Inc.; Dee Zee Inc.; Fostoria Glass Company; Indiana Glass Company; LRV Acquisition Corporation; Lagrande Molded Products Inc.; Lancaster Colony Canada Inc.; Lancaster Colony Commercial Products Inc.; Lancaster Glass Corporation; New York Frozen Foods Inc.; Pretty Products Inc.; T. Marzetti Company; T. Marzetti Company West; Quality Bakery Company Inc.; Reames Foods Inc.; Waycross Molded Products Inc.