Collecting Hen On Nest

One item at our Mt. Pleasant Relic Home

what brings back memories for many is the 
              "Hen on the Nest".

Seems like every family had one.

And now they are collector's items.  

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In the 1920s, Charles Westmoreland added a large decorating department to the Westmoreland Glass Factory, which allowed for the distribution of impressive crystal and decorated ware. But it was milk glass that kept the company in the black. Indeed, an estimated 90 percent of all Westmoreland glass produced between the 1920s and ’50s was made of milk glass.

One of Westmoreland’s most enduring products was a covered dish called Hen on Nest, which was manufactured in numerous sizes. The earliest Hens were pressed from a more fragile (and more collectible) type of milk glass than the versions that followed. Early Hens can be distinguished from later ones because they were pure milk-white; it was only later that the hen’s comb was colored bright red.
 

The typical hen on the nest is white milk glass.  

Courtesy of Ogden  Publications Inc. 

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