2 French Show Globes

Object Name: 
2 French Show Globes

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Object Name: 
2 French Show Globes
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, PA, White Mills
Accession Number: 
99.4.85
Dimensions: 
See Individual Records
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1880-1900
about 1880-1900
Credit Line: 
Gift of Harriet Koehler Brett
Web Description: 
Show globes were symbols of a drugstore in the same way that a barber pole indicated the location of a barbershop. The colored water inside the globes also helped to attract attention to the store. These globes were used in Ingersoll’s drugstore in Elmira Heights from at least 1900. The donor’s family purchased the store about 1950, and the globes remained there until it closed in 1999.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Brett, Harriet Koehler, Source
1999-08-25
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown glass
tooling
engraving
applied decoration
grinding
Material: 
lead glass

Description

Primary Description: 
Colorless glass; blown, engraved, polished, cut. Each globe is made up of four parts a) largest bottom section, b) smaller middle section, c) smallest top section and d) stopper.

Publications (1)

The Decanter: Ancient to Modern (2018) illustrated, p. 337 (fig. 3);

Objects in Set (2)

Show Globe and Stopper
Artist:C. Dorflinger & Sons
Date:1880-1900
Accession Number:99.4.85 A
Show Globe and Stopper
Artist:C. Dorflinger & Sons
Date:1880-1900
Accession Number:99.4.85 B