Belmont Rose Cameo Green Uranium Sherbet Dessert Bowl Dish Vaseline Footed
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Belmont Rose Cameo Green Uranium Sherbet Dessert Bowl Dish Vaseline Footed
Vintage 1930’s
Measures 2.75” tall x 4” in diameter at top rim
Great clean preowned condition
No chips, cracks or repairs
Many Depression glass patterns feature flowers including this Rose Cameo. It’s not a very large pattern and its pedigree was unknown for a while, but Rose Cameo has a grace and beauty that makes it stand out in any Depression glass garden
Depression glass was primarily given away as premiums in soapboxes or flour sacks, and what was sold was marketed as inexpensive dinnerware in dime stores
Rose Cameo’s origin: copyright was dated Dec. 1, 1931, and signed by its designer, H.A. Lay, who made it for the Belmont Tumbler Company, Bellaire Ohio USA
Very little is known about the Belmont Glass Company of Ohio as the factory burned down in 1952, taking all the company records with it. The few advertisements that do exist tell us that Belmont specialized in “tumblers in all sizes and desirable shapes for all purposes from one ounce up.” We know they produced glass in crystal, green, pink and iridescent, (though Rose Cameo is only found in green), but we aren’t really sure how much glass they turned out before the Depression forced the factory to close. In fact, many of Belmont’s items were originally attributed to Hazel Atlas, and some folks still believe that Hazel Atlas made Rose Cameo as shards of the pattern have been found at an old Hazel Atlas factory location. Perhaps Belmont commiss
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can you take a pic proving the glow in uranium glass?
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