Pattern Name:NEW ENGLAND PINEAPPLE

Pattern Motif:Plants

Glass Type:Flint

Manufacturer:New England Glass Company

Era:1860s

Description:50 Favorites - 6 The NEW ENGLAND PINEAPPLE pattern was once known to collectors in the northeastern United States as PINEAPPLE or LOOP AND JEWEL. In other sections of the country the term “Pineapple” was applied to the pattern now known as SAWTOOTH. Pattern designations often were “made up at random by dealers and collectors,” as Ruth Webb Lee noted in Early American Pressed Glass. During the early decades of the 20th century, few reference books existed to help codify the nomenclature. In her 1931 book, Lee made great advances in this regard and in it she recommended the pattern recognized in New England as “Pineapple” be termed NEW ENGLAND PINEAPPLE. She noted that this new name was already beginning to come into vogue and it seemed “more fitting” than the others. Lura Woodside Watkins originally attributed the pattern to the New England Glass Company of Cambridge, Massachusetts (Cambridge Glass, 1930), but later assigned it to the Sandwich factory, citing the evidence of excavated fragments and the existence of carved wooden models that reportedly had been used at Sandwich. These models included a NEW ENGLAND PINEAPPLE goblet and were illustrated by Antiques in March of 1927. (50 Favorites catalogue) U1, p.285; M1, p. 12