FROM DAVE'S DESK
Collecting PB glasses can be an exciting adventure, if you take your time and enjoy the ride. There are many series of PB glasses besides Boscul flower glasses, and some not known to be PB, that are just as fun and difficult to collect.
BIG TOP SONG A large series of approximately 100 glasses featuring "turn of the century" songs. Like the flowers, some are easy to find, while others will require quite a search. Pink song glasses are most sought after, followed by the tri-colored. Juice song glasses (top row of page 210), like flowered juice glasses, are not easily found.
STATE SONG Maybe you would like to collect the 48 state glasses with state songs. This series (pages 214-216) comes in 5" and 5 1/4". The 5" is easily the most doable; again look for variations like Ohio that comes in two colors. The 5 1/4" has two extremely difficult glasses to locate, New Jersey and Nevada. Other State series exist, including those with 50 states and frosted.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL If you're up for a challenge and have the time, patience and resources, the 20 or more glasses in the college football team series is for you. These glasses are collected nationally, highly sought, and even the common ones are very difficult to locate.
PRESIDENTS If history is your interest, the President series with their homes on the reverse side is the path to take. I know where it starts (Washington) and have Theodore Roosevelt, but am only guessing it ends with Franklin Roosevelt. This is a most difficult series to assemble.
ALPHABET How about a fun series for the children? This series comes in a variety of different options to choose from: standard 5" glass featured in book, thin bottom glasses, opaque (milk glass) tumblers and mugs.
BLUE PLATE As far as John and I can tell, this series may be as large as the Boscul flowers. A fun series.
BAMA A widely distributed and attractive series that contained Bama peanut butter, a Southern company. The large, tea-sized glasses have an indented ring in the glass down from the top. The common glasses in this series include the Watermelon and the Sunflower. These glasses include flowers, animals, fruit and other designs. Many of these can be found on eBay by looking for the ring.
JUMBO The last series in the book, these are plain glass jars but embossed with designs and elephant heads. The exciting facet of this series is the sheer number of sizes and variations of Jumbo jars. A large and very rare 2 lb 5 oz Jumbo Apple Butter (see book) with lid and label sold for $430 on eBay. A "lid only" for this jar sold for $230. These jars are located mainly in the Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana region centered around Cincinnati, home of Frank Tea & Spice who produced Jumbo. Hard to find jars like the elephant bank, 9 1/2 oz and apple butter can be quite pricey. There is a pamphlet printed just on Jumbo jars.
There is one thing that's very important if you are going to collect glasses, or for that matter, anything - SPACE. You will quickly find that you will need a lot of space to display glasses and it does no good to buy glasses and not display them. I have expanded three times and need to expand again, so take it from someone who knows. Ask yourself where you are going to display all those glasses. It is not hard to accumulate a few hundred in a short amount of time. To enjoy your collection and to share it with others, plan SPACE carefully.
Now, let's talk about peanut butter glasses and product glasses. Unless a series has been positively identified as peanut butter, be cautious in calling it peanut butter. As collectors, we have taken under our wing glasses that are NOT known to contain peanut butter. Why? Because we like them and wanted to add them to our collection. Some probably contained nothing or came in box sets. Others came with various products like jam, jelly or mayonnaise.
A good example is the Game Bird series; some of these actually came with tea bags, see page 167. Too many times, and often on eBay, glasses are identified as PB when it is unknown or simply wrong. Some of this has resulted from both the Mauzy books and now, our book, being titled Peanut Butter Glasses. That does NOT mean every glass or series of glasses in these books held peanut butter. Even our beloved Boscul glasses were sold in boxed sets and with other brands of peanut butter, see page 167.
Finally, we want to hear from you and what's on your mind. If you have a question or comment, you are probably not the only person with the same thought. Discussion among collectors is how we learn about the different glasses, variations, companies or other points of interest. So speak up and join the search for peanut butter glasses and knowledge about them.
Dave: [email protected]
Collecting PB glasses can be an exciting adventure, if you take your time and enjoy the ride. There are many series of PB glasses besides Boscul flower glasses, and some not known to be PB, that are just as fun and difficult to collect.
BIG TOP SONG A large series of approximately 100 glasses featuring "turn of the century" songs. Like the flowers, some are easy to find, while others will require quite a search. Pink song glasses are most sought after, followed by the tri-colored. Juice song glasses (top row of page 210), like flowered juice glasses, are not easily found.
STATE SONG Maybe you would like to collect the 48 state glasses with state songs. This series (pages 214-216) comes in 5" and 5 1/4". The 5" is easily the most doable; again look for variations like Ohio that comes in two colors. The 5 1/4" has two extremely difficult glasses to locate, New Jersey and Nevada. Other State series exist, including those with 50 states and frosted.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL If you're up for a challenge and have the time, patience and resources, the 20 or more glasses in the college football team series is for you. These glasses are collected nationally, highly sought, and even the common ones are very difficult to locate.
PRESIDENTS If history is your interest, the President series with their homes on the reverse side is the path to take. I know where it starts (Washington) and have Theodore Roosevelt, but am only guessing it ends with Franklin Roosevelt. This is a most difficult series to assemble.
ALPHABET How about a fun series for the children? This series comes in a variety of different options to choose from: standard 5" glass featured in book, thin bottom glasses, opaque (milk glass) tumblers and mugs.
BLUE PLATE As far as John and I can tell, this series may be as large as the Boscul flowers. A fun series.
BAMA A widely distributed and attractive series that contained Bama peanut butter, a Southern company. The large, tea-sized glasses have an indented ring in the glass down from the top. The common glasses in this series include the Watermelon and the Sunflower. These glasses include flowers, animals, fruit and other designs. Many of these can be found on eBay by looking for the ring.
JUMBO The last series in the book, these are plain glass jars but embossed with designs and elephant heads. The exciting facet of this series is the sheer number of sizes and variations of Jumbo jars. A large and very rare 2 lb 5 oz Jumbo Apple Butter (see book) with lid and label sold for $430 on eBay. A "lid only" for this jar sold for $230. These jars are located mainly in the Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana region centered around Cincinnati, home of Frank Tea & Spice who produced Jumbo. Hard to find jars like the elephant bank, 9 1/2 oz and apple butter can be quite pricey. There is a pamphlet printed just on Jumbo jars.
There is one thing that's very important if you are going to collect glasses, or for that matter, anything - SPACE. You will quickly find that you will need a lot of space to display glasses and it does no good to buy glasses and not display them. I have expanded three times and need to expand again, so take it from someone who knows. Ask yourself where you are going to display all those glasses. It is not hard to accumulate a few hundred in a short amount of time. To enjoy your collection and to share it with others, plan SPACE carefully.
Now, let's talk about peanut butter glasses and product glasses. Unless a series has been positively identified as peanut butter, be cautious in calling it peanut butter. As collectors, we have taken under our wing glasses that are NOT known to contain peanut butter. Why? Because we like them and wanted to add them to our collection. Some probably contained nothing or came in box sets. Others came with various products like jam, jelly or mayonnaise.
A good example is the Game Bird series; some of these actually came with tea bags, see page 167. Too many times, and often on eBay, glasses are identified as PB when it is unknown or simply wrong. Some of this has resulted from both the Mauzy books and now, our book, being titled Peanut Butter Glasses. That does NOT mean every glass or series of glasses in these books held peanut butter. Even our beloved Boscul glasses were sold in boxed sets and with other brands of peanut butter, see page 167.
Finally, we want to hear from you and what's on your mind. If you have a question or comment, you are probably not the only person with the same thought. Discussion among collectors is how we learn about the different glasses, variations, companies or other points of interest. So speak up and join the search for peanut butter glasses and knowledge about them.
Dave: [email protected]