FINE RIB / REEDED (OMN) BLOWN-MOLDED FOUR-BOTTLE CASTER SET, colorless lead glass, comprising two cruets with non-original stoppers, a salt shaker with silver-plated lid, and a mustard with a silver-plated lid, fitted in period unmarked pewter stand intended for five bottles. Together with a footed Fine Rib master salt. Two pieces total. Boston & Sandwich Glass Co., New England Glass Co., and possibly others. Third quarter 19th century. 9 3/4" HOA, bottles 5 5/8" to 8 5/8" HOA.
Facetted stopper with two sizeable chips to the extension and an additional chip to the tip of the stopper, other stopper with a chip, bottles undamaged, salt undamaged, stand nearly undamaged with a single split to the applied metal side and some minute denting.
Literature: Barlow/Kaiser - The Glass Industry in Sandwich, vol. 1, p. 173, fig. 1206.
Provenance: Property of a New York private collector.

Facetted stopper with two sizeable chips to the extension and an additional chip to the tip of the stopper, other stopper with a chip, bottles undamaged, salt undamaged, stand nearly undamaged with a single split to the applied metal side and some minute denting.