Footed Sherbert – EAPC
| Dimensions: | 3.5″ high. 6 oz. Footed. |
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| Part Number: | none |
| Catalogs: | none |
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| Known Colors: | Crystal |
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| Notes: | Non-production item. Prototype only. |
The EAPC Footed Sherbert is a unicorn. Blueprints and one or more prototypes were made, but it was never put into regular production.
Here’s what Vicky Hilton Cunningham shared on the Early American Prescut Facebook Group about it:
It is our understanding from past employees that several prototypes were made, maybe 8 – 10. If it was decided not to put it into production, one was kept for the original designer’s office. All other pieces were supposed to be smashed but many of them never made it to the piles to be smashed and were taken home by employees. So there could still be other pieces out there.
The original prototypes were eventually put into “the morgue” at the Anchor Hocking factory in Lancaster Ohio. That is where Gene Florence was able to get them to photograph for his books. He was even allowed at one time to take them to at least one Fire King Show that we know of in Tulsa, OK many years ago. If “the morgue” even still exists, it is no longer open to the public. So there is no museum to actually view these pieces, specifically the Cocktail Shaker, the 5″ Footed Bud Vase, and the Footed Sherbet. The Ohio Glass Museum in Lancaster, Ohio even asked Anchor Hocking to display the pieces in their museum but were denied.
Vicky Hilton Cunningham
In Collectible Glassware of the 40s, 50s, and 60s, 9th Edition, Gene Florence says “We sold our Sherbert and Bud Vase at the 2000 Fire-King Expo Show and have not seen any since.” It is a rare unicorn indeed!
Here are the only two pictures I can find of the Footed Sherbert. They’re edited versions of the ones that appear in Gene Florence’s Anchor Hocking’s Fire-King and More, 4th Edition, and Collectible Glassware of the 40s 50s 60s, 5th Edition.
