Millersburg Country Kitchen Emerald Green Spooner

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 spooner 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 9 & 10 show the Millersburg display and the spooner and creamer as they were presented.

I saw this spooner and the matching creamer in Brent's room after the seminar was over and the display was dismantled. He told me he won these two items 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 so dearly missed by all. They were icons of our wonderful hobby.

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 spooner is 4 1/4" tall, 3 7/8" wide, and has a base diameter of 2 5/8". The rayed design on the bottom is slightly different from that of the creamer. It's odd that the bottom of this spooner is iridized. Iridized bottoms are seldom seen in Carnival glass. The bottom of the creamer is not iridized at all.

The last photo is the picture as it appeared in the Seeck auction catalogue item #112. It was described as M'burg Country Kitchen creamer-green- fantastic blue radium irid., rare.

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