Pattern Name:BUCKLE

Pattern Motif:Geometric

Glass Type:Flint

Manufacturer:Pittsburg

Era:1870s

Description:50 Favorites - 29. BUCKLE is a distinctive patter featuring large buckle-shaped, diamond-patterned rings conjoined around the circumference of the article. The pattern was made in a wide variety of forms, in both lead and non-lead glass. Ruth Webb Lee noted the presence of BUCKLE patter fragments as the Sandwich factory site. She also acknowledged its production by other manufacturers, however, and mentioned seeing an illustration of a BUCKLE goblet as pattern “No. 15” in a trade catalog of the early 1870s issued by Gillinder & Sons of Philadelphia. Another possible manufacturer is identified by Lura Woods Watkins in her article, “The Union Glass Company” (Antiques, November 1936). Watkins describes the discovery of a plaster pattern for a BUCKLE mold and a wooden model for a BUCKLE goblet in the idle Somerville, Massachusetts, factory shortly before its demolition in 1934. (50 Favorites catalogue) Also in non-flint. M1, p. 122; M2 p.114