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http://publications.kaleden.com/articles/3148.html"Milk glass was the glass of the day, whether it was plain or decorated. Each spring, Gillinder turned its attention to the season of Easter. Blown milk glass eggs of all sizes were made and then decorated with flowers, chicks, rabbits and sayings. The eggs might also be embossed with an animal, cross, horseshoe or sayings. Some of the eggs also have a flat bottom to keep them from rolling.
It was a very popular custom to give a special egg to the woman in his life, whether it was his mother, sister, wife or grandmother.
Egg sizes range from 1 ½" to about 7 ½" long. To retain their top value today, the eggs must have their top value today, the eggs must have their original paint in good condition. Since the eggs were all cold painted (not fired), it does get extremely hard to find them with original paint.
The painting on each egg was usually really detailed. A very popular decoration of the day must have been violets painted around an embossed cross, since there seems to be a lot of eggs with this design.
Another design was flowers around a horse shoe. Other paintings on the eggs include chicks hatching from eggs and rabbits in the grass.
The embossed eggs are the most desired with their detailed painting. The top of an egg can have a chick or rabbit emerging out of it like it is hatching. Another egg may have a basket of eggs, a chick in the grass or Easter greetings. The rarest have an angel or cherub. For some reason, most of the embossed eggs are the ones with the flat bottoms so they don't roll when displayed."
http://www.bullworks.net/ffg/gillinder/gillinder.htmlGillinder & Sons was founded in 1861 by William Gillinder. It originally operated under the name of Franklin Flint Works. When William's sons, James and Frederic, joined the company in 1867, the name changed to Gillinder & Sons. The company endeared themselves to the public in 1876 when they built an exhibition glass factory on the fairgrounds of the American Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Here they demonstrated their glass making abilities and sold souvenirs to the visitors. In the early 1900s the company moved to Port Jervis, New York, where it operated as Gillinder Brothers. Today the Port Jervis factory is still family operated, doing business under the name Gillinder Glass. You can visit them online at
www.gillinderglass. com. Be sure to visit their online retail store online at
www.gillinderglasss tore.comThe chick emerging from the egg dates to 1889.
