Rare Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. Pressed Medium Blue 'Lafayet' (BT5) Steamboat Salt Dish, 1830-45. Molded "LAFAYET" above a star on each paddlewheel, "SANDWICH" on the interior base, "B. & S. GLASS CO" on the stern, and "SANDWICH" within curled tendrils underneath. Together with a Midwest colorless glass cup plate, probably Pittsburgh, 1845-55, pressed "E. A. & S. R. FILLEY, SAINT. LOUIS, IMPORTERS OF CHINA GLASS & QUEENS WARE." (2) Salt dish: H: 1.75 in., W: 3.5 in., D: 2 in. Cup plate: Diam: 3.375 in. Literature: The salt dish, L.W. and D.B. Neal, "Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period 1825-1850, p. 29; and Raymond E. Barlow and Joan E. Kaiser, "The Glass Industry in Sandwich," Vol. 1, p. 286, fig. 1463. The cup plate, Jane Shadel Spillman, "American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass," p. 127, n. 395.

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1.75 x 3.5 x 2 in