Pattern Identification Team

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 article under education, "A Brief History of Antique Pressed Glass".

Kat Krivda

Jon Clark

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.  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.

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.

Recent Inquiries and Responses:

• Crystallography

• Banded Star

• Nearcut #2647, Cambridge Glass Company

• Does Flint Glass Sun Darken/Purple ?

• Iowa City, Animal Motto Plates

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