Pattern ID Service

This pattern identification program is a service provided by the Early American Pattern Glass Society to all members of the glass collecting community. The service is at no charge but please limit your inquiries to items from the pressed glass field. That is not to say that maybe we can identify a specialty item but we will answer questions about pattern glass on a priority bases. For a concise description of pressed glass please refer to the Education Article A Brief History of Antique Pressed Glass.

Identification requests, photographs, any support material and replies will be retained in an active archive and shared with the general membership of the Society.  Periodically the analysis may result in a new or unusual piece of glass information.  This information and the details of your original inquiry may be published in our quarterly publication the "NewsJournal" or listed at the bottom of this page under the heading "Recent Inquiries and Response".  Please note that your permission to publish should be consider part of your inquiry unless clearly stated otherwise at the beginning of your email message.

Just one final note, this is not a service to help establish the market value of a piece of glass. Please do not ask to estimate the monetary value of your glass.

Kat Krivda

Jon Clark

Paul Kirk

Pattern Identification Team

The Trustees are indebted to Kat Krivda and Jon Clark for providing this service to the glass collecting community.  Each of these two people are very qualified with many years of experience and knowledge but their most important tool is the extensive reference library of books that they posses. 

Paul Kirk recently joined the Pattern ID team. He has been collecting and researching glassware for over 25 years. He currently enjoys writing and lecturing about many subjects pertaining to the Victorian era, especially how the styles and forms of EAPG fit into the context of the times in which it was produced. Paul also offers a glassware identification service and is a prolific musical composer of over 500 Celtic inspired dance tunes.

So if you need help identifying a piece of EAPG feel free to submit a pattern id request by clicking the "submit a pattern ID request !" button below. You can upload up to five images but please limit the size of the files that you send to less than 300K per picture.

Recent Inquiries and Responses

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