Pattern Name:WESTWARD HO

Pattern Motif:Landscape

Glass Type:Non-Flint

Decoration:Frosted

Manufacturer:Gillinder & Company

Era:1870s

Description:50 Favorites - 7. Since the 1920s, the Westward Ho pattern has been celebrated by collectors as the consummate statement in pattern glass of American heroic achievement. Bessie M. Lindsey sang a paean to early pioneers in Lore of Our Land Pictured in Glass and proclaimed that, "We who inherit the benefits paid for by pioneer daring and toil rightly treasure the remnants of this pattern which have survived." Ruth Webb Lee listed Westward Ho as number nine in her "Popular Ten" article (Antiques, August 1937). She also illustrated a covered Westward Ho compote on the title page of Early American Pressed Glass and wrote, "In this frosted design in relief, depicting the log cabin of the pioneer, the bison charging wildly across the plain, the deer fleeing from an unseen hunter, surmounted on all the covered pieces by a knob in the shape of a crouching Indian, we find a patriotic reminder of the state of our country west of the Mississippi before the transcontinental railroads were built. It is the distinctly American appeal of this glass that has made it to wildly and eagerly sought by our most discriminating collectors. (50 Favorites catalogue). U1 p. 95; M1, p. 110