Antique Dinnerware ( Part-4 ), Durand, Dionne Quintuplets and Dirk Van Erp Price Guide

Tableware is the dishes or dishware (ceramic), dinnerware (ceramics and other materials) used for setting a table, serving food, and for dining.In the United States, tableware is most commonly referred to as dinnerware. Dinnerware can be meant to include glassware, however not flatware. In Britain, the term crockery is sometimes used for ceramic dishes.Sets of dishes are often referred to as a table service or service set. Table settings or place settings are the dishes, flatware (cutlery), and glassware used by an individual for formal and informal dining. In the United Kingdom, silver service or butler service are names of methods for serving a meal. Dinnerware are usually made of ceramic materials such as earthenware, stoneware, or porcelain, however can be made of other materials such as wood, pewter, silver, gold, glass, acrylic, and plastic. Dishes are purchased either by the piece or by set which include either four, eight, or twelve place settings.

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Antique Durand

Durand art glass is prized by collectors worldwide for its beauty and styling. Durand art glass was made between 1924 and 1931. Durand was the art glass division of Vineland Flint Glass Works which was founded by Victor Durand in 1897. Many of the glass artists came from the Quezal Art Glass company which closed in 1924. The artists at Durand were granted a great deal of freedom to produce glass in a variety of styles. Many pieces were blown using an unusual yellow glass which many collectors now refer to as “Ambergris”. Durand produced a wide variety of art glass items including bowls, vases, perfume bottles, candlesticks and lamps. Durand’s art glass quickly gained fame for its beauty and quality. In 1926 Durand received a medal of honor at the Sesquicentennial International Exposition in Philadelphia. Sadly production ceased in 1931 when Victor Durand died in an auto accident. Durand art glass continues to be very popular with glass collectors.

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Antique Dionne Quintuplets

The Dionne quintuplets (born May 28, 1934) are the first quintuplets known to survive their infancy. The sisters were born just outside Callander, Ontario, Canada near the village of Corbeil.The Dionne girls were born two months premature. After four months with their family, they were made wards of the King for the next nine years under the Dionne Quintuplets’ Guardianship Act, 1935. The government and those around them began to profit by making them a significant tourist attraction in Ontario.

The Dionne Quintuplets

The identical quintuplet sisters were (in order of birth):

Yvonne Édouilda Marie Dionne — died June 23, 2001, age 67, of cancer

Annette Lillianne Marie Dionne (Allard) — age 78 as of June 2012

Cécile Marie Émilda Dionne (Langlois) — age 78 as of June 2012

Émilie Marie Jeanne Dionne — died August 6, 1954, age 20, of accidental suffocation during an epileptic seizure at her convent

Marie Reine Alma Dionne (Houle) — died February 27, 1970, age 35, of an apparent blood clot of the brain in Montreal.

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Antique Dirk Van Erp

Dirk Koperlager van Erp (1860 – 1933) was a Dutch American artisan, coppersmith and metalsmith, best known for lamps made of copper with mica shades, and also for copper vases, bowls and candlesticks. He was a prominent participant in the Arts and Crafts Movement, and was active in Oakland and San Francisco, California.

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