Pattern Name:COMET

Pattern Motif:Geometric

Glass Type:Flint

Era:1850s

Description:50 Favorites - 8. The original name for this patter, which features three large bulls eyes alternating with three swirling ornaments that suggest comet tails, has never been identified. Early collectors christened it COMET before they realized that COMET was the original pattern name for their beloved HORN OF PLENTY. By the time they realized their error, the collector designations were firmly established. They were retained by Ruth Webb Lee and subsequent writers. Lee admired COMET as a particularly bold pattern of the 1850s, stating in Early American Pressed Glass, “it is a most attractive design and has much to recommend it to collectors, though I have no seen many forms.” Writing later, in Sandwich Glass, she observes “there are a few designs of pressed glass which apparently were not produced by other factories than Sandwich, even at the time when the glassmakers stole or copied whatever promised to be a good seller. One is COMET. It was may good fortune to find a goblet in a brilliant sapphire blue.” (50 Favorites catalogue) M1, p. 12