Pattern Name:SANDWICH STAR

Pattern Motif:Geometric

Glass Type:Flint

Era:1850s

Description:50 Favorites - 22. Sandwich Star is the name applied by collectors to a distintive and extremely attractive pattern of prismatic, eight-point stars. The pattern has been attributed to the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company on the basis of the excavated fragments and the existance of wooden models acquired from a Sandwich source by Colonel A. H. Heisey. These models included Sandwich Star goblet, wine, cordial, and oblong dish forms. Further evidence of Sandwich production is provided by large bowls in the pattern, some of which have been found jopined to the famous Sandwich, triple-dolphin base. The goblet stands on a knob-stem with off-set flutes similar to the stems found on such patterns as Chilson, Lee and Diamond Point. S.T. Millard notes that Sandwich Star was a particularily heavy, brilliant pattern of the 1850s and "very scarce and hard to find." Alice Hulett Metz agreed, and added the usual advice that, "one need not attempt to collect a setting, one piece makes a distinguished decorative note." (50 Favorites catalogue). Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.; U1 p.289; early flint.