Last post I shared our amber Cambridge Apple Blossom bowl and center handled server that we bought at the 2019 National Depression Glass show. It’s beautiful glass and we enjoy it, although I had not been that entranced with this pattern before finding it in amber. Amber is so warm it brings out the charm and lovely etch.
My reference book from Debbie and Randy Coe, Elegant Glass, Early, Depression and Beyond, lists over 115 pieces in Apple Blossom, most made in all 6 colors, crystal, amber, Gold Krystol (yellow), green, Moonlight Blue and Peach Blow/Dianthus (pink). That is a lot of glass and the choices range from lovely accessories to stems and tumblers and yes, dinnerware pieces too.
One reason for the huge piece list is Cambridge used multiple stem lines or blanks, and variations on several pieces. For example, they used the #3135 stem with a straight, groved stem, knobby top and bottom and rounded bowl, the #3130 stem which has a bulbous grooved stem with a wafer at the bottom, the #1066 ball stem, plus a couple sizes of line #3011, the famous Cambridge nude stem. (To me the #3011 always look like the poor lady is stuck holding up the earth while Atlas takes a break.)
For plates there are square-ish, round, and 6-sided varieties, and bowls, candle holders, vases, comports, pitchers, cups, saucers, creamers and sugars likewise have more than one shape option.
In the past we owned only two pieces of Apple Blossom, the green creamer and sugar.
Notice the square motif in between the exuberant flowers. This is one sure way to spot Apple Blossom.
People must have liked Apple Blossom; we can tell by the extensive piece list and that Cambridge made it for 10 years and produced almost all the pieces in the full color range. That’s somewhat unusual as many elegant patterns have a color or two with all the pieces and then more with just a few pieces. (Think of Fostoria Navarre in blue or pink, made in far fewer pieces than in crystal.)
I just checked eBay and found quite a few listings for Apple Blossom in most of the color. It seems there were more crystal and yellow than blue or green and the prices reflect this too. If you like this graceful pattern then consider going to a glass show as most of the shows we attended had dealers displaying Apple Blossom, or look online.
It’s a much prettier pattern in person than in the photos and of course, the shapes are Cambridge wonderful.