BT-5 "LAFAYET" STEAMBOAT PRESSED OPEN SALT, opalescent medium blue with light mottling, marked "B. &. S. / GLASS. / Co" on stern and "SANDWICH" on interior and under base. Color not listed in Neal, very rare. Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. 1830-1845. 1 1/2" H, 2" x 3 5/8".
Chip to top of one paddle wheel and corresponding moderate roughness to interior, several minor inner-rim and outer-rim flakes, some chipping/roughness to table ring, very minor mold roughness to rudder.
Literature: Neal - Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, p. 29. Color listed in The Acorn, Volume 15, 2008/2009, p. 25, "Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period 1825-1850: An Addendum." Parallels Barlow/Kaiser - The Glass Industry in Sandwich, vol. 1, p. 286, fig. 1463.
Provenance: Collection of Paul and Monica Harvey, Naples, FL.
Collector's Sales & Services, 10/28/00, lot 68 (wrong Neal number).
Ex-collection of Scott Hambidge (retains collection label).

Chip to top of one paddle wheel and corresponding moderate roughness to interior, several minor inner-rim and outer-rim flakes, some chipping/roughness to table ring, very minor mold roughness to rudder.