Vintage Carnival Glass Bowl - 3D Dutch Windmill EUC

Description

Vintage Carnival Glass Bowl no chips or cracks.
3D Dutch Windmill
Smith Glass Marking on Bottom of Bowl from Imperial mound
2 1/2 in. Height
8 in. Width
In the 1950s-1960s, the business developed into decorative glassware. In the 1960s they experimented with iridescent ware and in January 1971 they went into production with Contemporary Carnival Glass with their first two items in Contemporary Carnival - John F Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln collector's plates. Each one was made in amethyst, and was originally limited to 2500 pieces, numbered on the base. Also in 1971, the company was purchased by Owens-Illinois, with Smith operating as a wholly owned subsidiary.
In 1985, Dorothy Taylor’s Carnival Glass Encore reported that Hank Opperman, president of L E Smith (and a one-time Imperial employee), stated that the company had “probably 100 to 200 moulds from Imperial.”
Smith had also bought many moulds from McKee in the 1950s and, having used them over a long period of time, some were revived for Contemporary Carnival production.
Examples of the reproductions from old Imperial moulds include the Windmill pitcher and tumblers, the 7” Windmill bowl and the 8” inch oval pickle dish, the Pansy pickle dish and the Open Rose / Lustre Rose bowl; most of these that have since been made by Smith are in red and cobalt Carnival.
​Interestingly, this means that Smith have produced re-issues of re-issues! (Imperial re-issued them in the 1960s and 1970s before they closed, and the moulds were later bought and re-used by Smith).