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EXTREMELY RARE SMALL DOLPHIN SCALLOP BASE PAIR OF

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EXTREMELY RARE SMALL DOLPHIN SCALLOP BASE PAIR OF CANDLESTICKS, unrecorded deep purple blue and opaque white with excellent resonance, each featuring a 12-petal socket and 16-scallop circular base with two pairs of concentric rings underneath, wafer construction. Examples have been observed both with and without wafers. Probably Boston & Sandwich Glass Co., possibly Cape Cod Glass Co., or Mt. Washington Glass Co. 1860-1880. 6 3/8" and 6 5/8" h, 4" dia base.
Reference: Parallels B & K IV, fig. 4053, "Until recently, we knew of only three (clear examples) in private collections."
Parallels Spillman, fig. 874, formerly in the collection of George S. McKearin.
Parallels Wilson/Mt. Washington I, p. 62, fig. 3-27..
Provenance: From the collection of Nancy D. Minus.
Note: A truly remarkable pair of candlesticks and the only two-color examples that we could locate. Their difference in height is due to the slight slumping of the stem seat of the shorter example. They are undoubtedly a matched pair as they left the factory.

Virtually proof having only a single shallow chip to one socket petal and one underbase snap-ring flake, both standards with the usual annealing fissures and lines associated with opaque white glass

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