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Pickle Castors

We currently have 7 antique pickle castors in our shop.  There were used in privileged homes to serve pickles in
formal dining rooms.  It was considered the height of elegant dining in the Victorian era to have one or two, if the
family was very wealthy, pickle castors on the dining room table when serving a meal.  They usually consist of a
silver plated frame fitted with a glass insert, and matching silver plated lid. Some had matching silver plated tongs
and/or pickle fork.  Inserts are to be found in pattern glass and colored art glass.

Blue Single & Red Single on Left - Others Sold

Lusters or Lustres

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Lusters - Mantle and table decorations, or pedestal vases, lusters have hanging glass prisms.  Those with one row of prisms
are more common, while the double hung prisms are rarer and usually more costly.  Their name refers to the prisms.  A single
glass prism is a lustre or luster - with either spelling being correct.

These were always expensive and were usually found in only the more prominent homes.  This is still true today, with some of
the more affluent homes owning several pair.  There are many collectors today, of those who can afford this luxury, the hunt
that turns up these treasured art objects is part of the joy of these collections.  Often you will find a single luster.  When
estates  were settled it was not uncommon for one to be left to each of two daughters, other family members or friends and
thus the pair was separated.

There are many who are happy to own just one pair or a single luster.  

E-mail pictures, height, Dia. at top and base, loss of gold, enameling, any damage to glass or prisms (lustres) for cost of 
lustres appraisal.

FOR SALE: 
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Pairs For Sale