Millersburg Country Kitchen Emerald Green Creamer

This Millersburg pattern, called Country Kitchen, is a favorite amongst the Amish community and is seldom seen for sale because it is so highly collected and kept. I purchased this creamer during the 2014 HOACGA convention from Brent Mochel after I had seen it in the dazzling Millersburg Glass display, organized by the club. Members were asked to bring a few pieces of their Millersburg Glass from home to assemble the most magnificent Millersburg Display ever. Gary Heavin did a fine job as the speaker as he went through several pieces in detail, pointing out the rarities and elaborating on the exceptional pieces. It was a wonderful education. Pictures 6 & 7 show the Millersburg display and the spooner and creamer as they were presented. Be sure to click on each picture again to enlarge them.

I saw the spooner and creamer in Brent's room after the seminar was over and the display was dismantled. He told me he won this and the matching spooner during the ICGA (International Carnival Glass Ass.) convention auction in July of 2012 in Springfield, Illinois. The sale featured the collection of  the late Bob & Geneva Leonard. Geneva was alive at the time but a tragic automobile accident took her life shortly after. They are dearly missed by all.

Auctioneer Jim Seeck wrote  "Geneva & Bob traveled extensively around to all the conventions and auctions to find the rare and unusual. A good word that sums up their collection would be "Rare" as we used it over and over in describing their glass. They have been collectiong for a long time and collections like this just don't get put together very often. It takes years to find rarities like they have. Many of these items are only seen in books."

The Leonards owned these two pieces for over 40 years. They really do belong together in their transition from collector to collector. They're both unmistakably emerald green. It looks like the start of a collecton aiming for a complete breakfast set but the pieces are so rare that it was never completed.

This creamer is 4.25" tall, 4" wide, 6" wide from spout to handle, and has a base diameter of 2.5". The rayed design on the bottom is slightly different from that of the spooner. It's odd that the bottom of the spooner is iridized and the bottom of this creamer is not.

The last photo is the picture as it appeared in Seeck's Auction catalogue item #113. It was described as M'burg Country Kitchen creamer-green- fantastic blue radium irid., rare.

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