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About the item:
For your viewing and bidding pleasure is a closed handle Sandwich tray/server in Crystal, manufactured by the Jeannette Glass Company in the "Windsor Point" pattern, circa 1936-1946. This measure 10" in diameter, excluding the handles. It is in beautiful condition, in a very clear crystal with no discoloration seen, no cracks nor chips. It does have just a tiny bit or roughness on the protruding handles, and a few almost invislble minor scratches from normal use. It does possess the expected and desired bubbles and strawmarks inherent in glass produced during this era.
According to the recognized depression glass expert, Gene Florence, from his book "The Collector's Encyclopedia of Depression Glass, Eleventh Edition" on page 211: " There are...two styles of sandwich plates. The normally found one is 10 1/4" and has open handles. The newly discovered tray is 10" and has closed handles. This was the first report I have had on this item. It remains to be seen how difficult it is to find." (Note: this edition was published in 1994, approximately 50 years after this tray was manufactured.)
What I can say is this: This item is the "newly discovered one" described, with closed handles and I haven't yet seen it myself anywhere else.
Good Luck Bidding!
This tray is also can be seen in a picture in the Collector's Guide to Depression Glass by Marian Klamkin on page 4, but in the more common open handle style.
NOTES:
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