Made by the Dugan Glass Company

or the

Diamond Glass-Ware Company?

The three carnival glass patterns, Apple Blossom Twigs, Fanciful and Roundup, all have a number of things in common that would indicate that they were produced simultaneously.  For example: except for a few reported plain back found on the Apple Blossom Twigs patterns, all three patterns have the Big Basketweave as an exterior pattern.  In carnival glass production  all that was necessary to change the interior pattern of the glass was to use a plunger of a different pattern.  Other common factors are they are all found in the same shapes: plates and bowls which may be ruffled, low ruffled, ice cream shaped or have a three-in-one edge.  

The patterns also have commonalities in color. For example, in bowls peach opal is the most common color Apple Blossom Twigs and Roundup and the second most common color for the Fanciful.  Peach opal was a color that was produced by both Dugan and Diamond.  Deep purple is considered to be a color produced by Dugan while lighter shades of amethyst (lavender) are considered by historians to be produced by the Diamond Company.  All three patterns are found in purple/amethyst and lavender.  All three patterns are found in varying quantities in cobalt blue with the Fanciful plate being the most common in blue, but the bulk of cobalt blue was supposedly produced after 1912 when it was purchased by the Diamond Glass Company. And finally, marigold is the least common color and is considered scarce for all three patterns; even though, the Diamond Glass Company made considerably more marigold than the Dugan Glass Company.

Historians assume that the glass moulds for these three patterns were destroyed in the 1912 fire at the Dugan Glass Company, but the fact that these patterns are found in colors that have historically assigned to each company indicates that the moulds were not destroyed.  Especially, when you consider that the pink afterglow line was not produced until 1928 by the Diamond Glass-Ware Company.

After several years of searching, we have found each of the three patterns in Pink Afterglow.  Each of the three patterns was photographed on a black background and a white background. The base of each was photographed to capture the pink color of the glass. When a piece of pink afterglow carnival glass is photographed or viewed on a  black ground blue, green and even purple iridescence can be seen.  When the same piece of glass is photographed or viewed on a white background the marigold iridescence will only have pink and blue highlights. Even though the glass looks totally different with the different backgrounds they are the same piece of glass. Marigold Carnival glass does have that same effect from dark to light backgrounds.

Apple Blossom Twigs

Fanciful   

Roundup