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cherryhill, Tom posted an update Tuesday, Oct 18, 2011, 4:14pm EDT, 13 years, 11 months ago
Why two companies would have the same pattern?
Reen. In the 1920s, Boston & Sandwich glass became the HOT collectible. It had been out of business about 35 years and all antique dealers were claiming that almost everything they had in stock was ’Sandwich.’ A pattern which was popular with collectors then was Princess Feather. It didn’t matter that it was made by Bakewell, Pears, it was called Sandwich and people accepted that. Several companies made (New) similar patterns and put them on the market to capitalize on the popularity of the pattern. Indiana, Duncan Miler and others made them. (My area of knowledge ends about 1905, so I’m not sure who made all of them, but) they were like enough that they could be mixed and look all alike.{Edit] Colony, (lancaster Colony) was a division of Indiana.