Northwood Acorn Burrs Purple Punch Bowl Set No. 1
Description
I purchased this beautiful purple Acorn Burrs punch bowl and five cups at the February, 2, 2008 Tampa Bay Convention auction featuring the collection of Gary & Janet Heavin of Missouri. I bought some lovely glass that day, about fifty-five single pieces which I managed to fly home with safely. I'm pretty sure I wept through the whole trip home, fretting breakage, but I must have done a good job packing. I had a 100% success rate!
I own two of these purple Acorn Burr bowls. I would have a hard time giving either one of them up. The other one once belonged to Pete & Paula Bingham of Washington state who sold it during their auction in HOACGA in 2006. My friend Rick Stockhill bought it at that time and sold it to me recently. It's darker and more demure as you can see in a different posting.
Again, like the green ones, I don't mind owning two of the same color because the iridescence is so very different from one to another. Each piece of glass evokes a mood, a feeling, or stirs up an old memory and that is how unique every piece of glass is to me. I buy with my eyes and my heart. If it makes your heart beat faster and your eyes open wider, that's the ticket!
This bowl measures 10 1/2" tall and 10 1/2" wide. I eventually found another cup to complete the set but have upgraded them whenever I saw a single one come up on eBay. Cups with great color are very difficult to find. Usually, when they are offered for sale, the prettiest one I want will be accompanied by two or three that are silvery or golden. I end up having to buy all of them just to get the one I want. I don't mind because they are still pretty and I like to make sets of six of these extra ones. Someday they will be appreciated by someone who has a punch bowl to match them.
The key to putting a set together involving punch bowls, water sets, breakfast sets, etc. is to not have the pieces look out of place. It's nice to emulate the feeling that your set was originally purchased this way a hundred years ago.
The last photo is how it appeared in the Remmen Auction catalog.
The Christina Katsikas Collection
