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L. E. Smith Slag Candy
| L. E. Smith Slag Candy |
Large candy is 10 inches tall with a ribbed or lobed vertical shape.
Tom Felt, author of the book, "L. E. Smith Glass Company, The First Hundred Years" says "This candy jar is definitely L. E. Smith. It is their no. 4805 Simplicity candy box, made circa 1964-1966 in bittersweet (their orange slag color) and for a few years longer in other colors. Unfortunately, it won't appear in my new book, because I ran out of space. I'm hoping to do a second volume that will include all of the candy jars that didn't fit in the first one. I would ordinarily have said that the color alone is sufficient proof of the piece being Smith, because I am not aware of anyone else having made a color similar to bittersweet, a belief corroborated by Sandra Spence, the daughter of C. L. Spence, who developed the formula for the color. In a letter she wrote to Collector's Digest in 1998, she quoted from an unpublished manuscript of her mother's who said that bittersweet was a color 'that no one else in the industry was quite able to match,' and went on to say that her father had taken the secret of the formula to his grave with him. But what is giving me pause is that Jo has a candlestick in this color posted in the unknown candlestick section -- and it isn't one I've ever seen in any of Smith's catalogs. Unlike the earlier periods, I have pretty complete documentation in terms of catalogs from the 1960s, so I would expect this style candlestick to have popped up somewhere.
Have any of you ever seen this color in a piece that you could definitely attribute to a company other than Smith?" |
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