ETCHING: BIRD AND CASTLE (AKA)
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• MAKER: Buckeye Glass Company/Martins Ferry-Ohio (Company Operated: 1876-1896), Introduced: c1890 Introduced
• NOTE: Sid Lethbridge 2021: Speculated by Buckeye. Bird & Castle etched. Part of a water set that appears in Butler Bros. catalogs of the early 1890s. It is often found with an XZ or Z signature that we now suspect is Xavier Zgraggen. He was the head of the etching department at Buckeye Glass from the late 1880s to 1893.
• MOTIFS: Scenes, Bird/Fowl, Acid Etched