Pattern Name:RIBBED PALM

Pattern Motif:Plants

Glass Type:Flint

Era:1860s

Description:50 Favorites - 48. In the first edition of Early American Pressed Class (1931), Ruth Webb Lee attributes Ribbed Palm to M'Kee & Brothers of Pittsburgh. She notes the pattern is referred to as "Sprig" in an 1865 catalog, 20 items illustrated in M'Kee's 1865 catalog, 20 items in the 1868 catalog, and three items in their 1871 catalog. Writing for Spinning Wheel in October of 1948, Lee revised her attribution to include production of items by the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company. She suggested the pattern variat with convex leaf veins was made by one of the teo factories while the variant with caoncave veins was made by the other. Neither in this article nor in the Sandwich Glass, however, does she venture a guess as to which variant came from which factory. Minnie Watson Kamm supports Lee's attribution of at least some RIBBED PALM items to Sanwich, citing the excavation of fragments at the factory site abd repaeting the claims of an earlier writer, Frank W. Chipman, that the pattern was made in Sandwich before the Civil War. (50 Favorites catalogue) Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.; very heavy clear flint. U1, p.71; M1, p. 30