1930s Plates (10) deals Needle Etched Libbey Rock Sharpe Excellent Condition

Antique Libbey Rock Sharpe 8 1/2" luncheon plates believed to be in the "Villars" cutting 1004 optic, circa 1937. This set of (10) luncheon plates is exquisite. Ferns with overlapping cut floral cuts the fine needlepoint etch continues right up to the edge of the luncheon plate.

The condition is pristine, antique condition free of film, cracks, bites to the hand-made needlepoint etched blown crystal.

Set of (10) luncheon plates
8 1/2" wide
Polished ground base

Final Sale

Writer Carl U. Fauster, Director of Antique and Historic Glass Foundation Toledo, Ohio writes "Libbey Glass and Bryce Brothers of Mt. Pleasant, PA, were both furnishing hand-made stemware blanks to Sharpe in the mid-1930s. Sharpe made no glass but was a cutting operation and since they marketed stemware only under the Sharpe brand name, none of the blanks were identified as coming from Libbey.

In the late 1930s, Libbey developed the process for making stemware automatically, primarily for the restaurant, hotel and bar trades. Since Libbey had no opposition in the retail field during those years, the factory-made stemware patterns for Sharpe by machine as well as hand-made until wartime restrictions terminated factory operations, except for essential war effort products. Shortly after the war ended, Libbey acquired Sharpe, using the operation to make cut glassware, marketed under the Libbey name to retail stores. The final acquisition was made in 1947 and the operation moved to Toledo about the early 1950s.

Records of Sharpe patterns have been lost, but some references are made in Concetta Emanuele's book STEMS. We do not consider Sharpe patterns, particularly collectible, but students can only get full facts by researching ads in consumer magazines of the period, as Sharpe was rather extensively advertised".

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