The PYREX Museum |
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The Attic |
| -- Newly Acquired Pieces -- |
| Commemorative Plate | |
| What a wonderful addition to the museum: a commemorative pie plate recognizing 70 years of Pyrex production! This plate was produced in 1985, and you can see the signed reverse in the picture. Corning should come out with something even better in 2015, on the 100th anniversary of Pyrex! | |
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| Pie plate with Silver Plated Mounter | |
| This is truly a beautiful piece of Pyrex in a unique setting. This is a #210 pie plate, and the piece has a symmetrical etching on the bottom. The design on the side of the plate appears to be the often seen 'Spray' design, but the square pattern is one that is rarely seen. Notice that in the picture on the right the plate cannot even be seen from the side, it is totally concealed by the mounting. | |
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| Roasting Pan Lid | |
| This could arguably be the largest piece of Pyrex ever produced. You can see the size compared to a ruler below. This is a lid to a roaster, and is #2000. As you can see in the advertisement here which is from 1926, the lid could double as a platter for whatever you cooked. The selling price for this in 1926 was $5.00. | |
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| Oval Casserole with Elegant Mounter | |
| This is a #624 casserole in a chormium mounter. The casserole itself has a nicely etched lid with the 'Spray' design to highlight it. Once again we have added a design on the mounter that is completely different from any others in the museum! | |
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| Square Casserole w/ Stand | ||
| What a wonderful find this is. It is a #800 square casserole with lid. The #800 was first produced in 1921, and we believe it to be the first 'square' Pyrex casserole produced by Corning. A dealer's catalog from 1922 listed it as a 'pudding dish'! This piece is in wonderful condition (We sometimes wonder where they have been hiding for 90 years and have never even been scratched?) and has a beautiful stand. The stand is evidently silver from the way it tarnished sitting on a shelf in our house! It is too bad that the maker of the stand left no identification on this piece. You can see the decoration is a Dutch motif, with children, windmills, houses and wagons! | ||
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