1401405

McKee Covered Milk Glass Dresser/Pin Dish Circa#1401405

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McKee Covered Milk Glass Dresser/Pin Dish Circa#1401405
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This milk glass dresser/pin dish is colorful and delicate! The paint is intact and the glass is in excellent condition!</em></td>
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This milk glass dresser/pin dish is colorful and delicate! Manufactured in the Victorian Era in the late 19th century, it is in a curved "amoeba" shape and has a lid.<p>

Compared to other similar dishes of this type and era, this dresser/pin dish has fared very well. Its paint--in colors of aqua-blue and gold--is nearly intact. The remnants of a pink rose and petals, no doubt worn through use, is visible on the lid. The glass is in excellent condition!<p>

The dish is nearly 3 3/4 inches long and 1 1/4 inch high. The base is the same. Within the curved shape, it is 2 1/2 inches at its widest. On the bottom of this dish is the McKee mark in script.<p>

This will make a wonderful acquisition for the Victorian milk glass collector!<p>

(For a bit of history, the original McKee Glass Company (McKee and Brothers Glass) was founded in 1843 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This company was the result of earlier companies formed by several of the McKee brothers who had been active in the early glass industry of Pittsburgh for years. Because of the number of McKee brothers who began their own enterprises, it is difficult to chart the exact history of McKee Glass to the point where we know it today. At the time that McKee and Brothers was established, at least three (3) other McKee factories were operating, with the McKee name.<p>

Samuel and James McKee had a factory in Pittsburgh in the 1830s. Samuel McKee had also operated S. McKee & Company after in the mid-1830s and possibly into the ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1890-1900</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:McKee Covered Milk Glass Dresser/Pin Dish Circa</td></tr>


<tr><td>Type:Milk Glass</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:Hillsboro, Ohio USA</td></tr>
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