Vintage "AKRO AGATE" CUSTARD SLAG GLASS Electric Cigar Deco Lighter and Ashtray

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Seller: grim354 ✉️ (389) 100%, Location: St Catharines, Ontario, CA, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 235494445485 Vintage "AKRO AGATE" CUSTARD SLAG GLASS Electric Cigar Deco Lighter and Ashtray.

Rare, I think  to find a deco slag glass lighter with a  matching ashtray.

Looks very much like the Akro Agate pieces from mid 20th century.

Superb colours here with a light green and oxblood or caramel swirl throughout.

The bottom of the ashtray is marked with the manufacturer's name and location:

"Vidrio Products Corp.

Cicero Ill.

Pat'd

No. 6000"

Here is an excerpt from a Corning Glass Museum's answer to a request for info on Vidrio:

In the Rakow Library collection we do have the following reprint of a Vidrio Products trade catalog published by the West Virginia Museum of Glass:  Vidrio Products Corporation, 1926-1953 .

  Vidrio Products Corporation, Cicero, Ill. (1929 to 1953)
Smoking products
Possibly Vidrio
Household items
Lamps
Labels
Vidrio product list (model numbers)
Patents
Newspaper advertisements
American Flint Glass Workers' Union documentation
Drawings submitted to the A.F.G.W.U. for determination of wage and turn rates
Other products: catalog sheets, circa 1930s. Subjects Glassware industry -- Illinois -- Cicero -- 20th century -- History Glass industry and trade -- Illinois -- Cicero -- 20th century -- History Vidrio Products Corporation

The glass is in excellent condition.

There is, however, some minor chipping around the top of the base for the lighter. 

I guess that is to be expected as the lighter was, for many, many years, repeatedly placed back into its base..

Guessing this is early in Vidrio's mid 20th century run- likely a 1930's piece? 

I have plugged this in (with some trepidation!) and it does not heat up.

What looks like the original wiring appears to be fully intact.

The plug also appears to be original and seems to be missing the paper cover to the connections.

This may be uranium glass but I do not have a black light to check.

Ashtray base is 3 1/8" by 6".

The bell or dome shaped lighter piece is 3" high and fits properly in its seat in the ashtray base.

An interesting, beautiful and formerly functional piece with great colours.

Pretty rare combination of both the lighter and the ashtray base together and intact.

I have priced this given the apparent scarcity of similar items out there.

If you think I am off base, coach me down from these lofty heights and make me an offer.

SEE MY OTHER VINTAGE TABLE LIGHTER LISTINGS.

Combined shipping available.

Thanks for looking.

  • Condition: Used
  • Color: green and caramel
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

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