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At my place of work we take every opportunity to have some kind of celebratory food. Last month we had a finger food day in recognition of St. Patrick’s Day.  I took a variety of Irish cheeses and crackers and was very happy to serve them on my green server in this same line.  It looked very pretty on the table!

Since this time I have acquired this piece of Tiffin with a gilt trim and an unidentified cutting.

Because I had forgotten that the shapes were similar, I turned to my handy dandy book – A Guide to Identification of Glass Center Handle Servers by Inez J. Austin – and to my favourite glass website – the Elegant and Everyday Glass Forum – for an ID.

Ms. Austin’s book (p.49) speaks about the difficulty of identifying some Tiffin servers.  She calls this handle “vee handle with hill top”.  She says that the 310-10 inch server was introduced in 1922 as a round piece, but by 1923 has the 2 ripple pattern that is seen on this example.

If anyone knows the name of the decoration I would be happy to hear.