Guernsey Glass Company

GLASS
GUERNSEY
GLASS
COMPANY
ANIMAL
COVERED
DISHES*
IDENTIFICATION GUIDE
*CHICKENS NOT INCLUDED
JENNIFER PATTON

ABOUT ME
Hi! My name is Jen and this is a little bit about myself. First, I must say this project was a lot of fun.
Like a book from my gradeschool years lol. I don’t know if children today still do book reports, but when
I was in school, they were required and boy did I dread reading the assigned books then having to
summarize them! I loved reading books that interested me and hopefully this will interest you. I created
it for anyone that needs help with identification. For the novice glass collectors that buy animal covered
dishes because they fall in love with the way they look or the type of animals they are, or simply for
their colors. For the avid collectors who enjoy buying a few of each animal regardless of the maker. For
the veteran collectors who may have hundreds of glass dishes who never cease to amaze me with their
beautiful collections. For the people that have inherited or purchased someone’s entire collection or
part of a collection and need help to identify things. For the people like me that are meticulous about
every detail needing to label things and just absolutely need to know the whats, whens, whos, hows and
whys of the animal dishes they own. For me, what started with one Asian yellow stained glass bunny on
a nest, has flourished into a full blown collection of hundreds of mixed and matched animal covered
“candy” dishes of all glass types and colors. No particular glass maker, just everything I can’t live
without. LOL. Anyone that knows me would tell you that I stop at nothing, studying book after book
searching for answers about my own glass animals until I find them. I have never been satisfied with a
mystery….unless it involves me watching Columbo, my lifelong favorite television program! I am a
mystery solver... a true detective. I get this from my Mother, Cindy -Sultana- Wheatley. I need to get to
the bottom of a piece of unidentified glass. It drives me bananas not to know everything I can about
each piece that I own. Next, I will tell you that the monetary value of my glassware means nothing to
me. I collect it because I love it. However, unique and rare is always a find! Sure, like every collector, I
love a bargain and have had to pass up many pieces that I could not afford. Ooooh the ones that got
away. They haunt me. I can assure you that when I get a new addition to my collection, it has found its
forever home. Someone before me and usually possibly before them owned these animal covered
dishes making a kind of history that I can only imagine in my mind, its importance to each person. There
is a reason behind every single glassware in every single dwelling. Glass symbolizes many things. It is
proudly displayed. It is important to the person who owns it. I enjoy seeing the happiness glassware
brings to people, especially these animal covered dishes. Who doesn’t love animals? I also enjoy seeing
my collection knowing these pieces of history live on and hope that when I am long gone, they will be in
other homes. My glass brings me peace; most peaceful in the evenings when the cabinet lights are on
and the glass does its natural thing; what it was intended to do since the day it was made...look pretty!
To me, it is reminiscent of having a year round Christmas Tree. Glass is AMAZING! I am a country girl
through and through. I love all things nature. I am an avid bird watcher and an all around animal lover. I
live in the beautiful state of Kentucky with my husband and our two dogs, Monkey and Johnnie, who by
the way, is named after my all time favorite singer, Johnny Cash.

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Guernsey Glass Company
Harold Bennett was co-owner of Guernsey County Glass Company in
Cambridge, Ohio which began in 1967. Soon after opening, they were
forced to rename it Guernsey Glass company.
Harold Bennett worked at Cambridge Glass in the payroll department.
He may have been distantly related to Cambridge Glass owner, Arthur
Bennett.
Harold Bennett may have acquired important Cambridge factory
paperwork, catalogs and molds in a very unique way! Employees from
Cambridge Glass Factory, including Harold Bennett, were ordered to
take paperwork and molds to a garbage dump after Cambridge closed in
1958. Bennett returned to the dump, took everything, and brought it all
to his father Charles Bennett's barn! This would have been all the
Nearcut molds and a few molds from the National Glass combine that
escaped the WWII scrap drive.
Mosser Glass poured molds for Guernsey Glass Company.
Harold Bennett sold glass until around 1990.
Harold Bennett went on to become owner of the Cambridge Glass
Museum. His wife Dorothy E. Larrick "Judy" Bennett sold the museum in
2008. Thanks to Harold's ownership of Cambridge catalogs, he was able
to share them with National Cambridge Collectors Society.
Harold D. Bennett, died at age 87 on March 29, 2003.

Guernsey Glass Company
rabbiT on Akro Agate Base
This combination Rabbit Dish was a factory marriage. Harold Bennett and his
brothers formed Guernsey Glass Company in 1967 in Cambridge, Ohio. Bennett
acquired the "garden dish" base after Akro Agate Glass Company Closed in 1951
and paired his Rabbit lid with the base. Made in Milk Glass colors of: Black, Brown,
Orange and Custard. Slag with White colors of: Green, Blue, Orange and Yellow.
Clear colors: Purple, Aqua, Pink, Lime Green and Crystal. Other colors possible.
Base is marked MADE IN USA , 654 with 'B' inside a triangle. 'B' represented
Bennett and 654 was the mold mark Akro Agate previously used on this dish. Any
color other than Black is hard-to-find. 6" long x 5 1/2" high.
Reproduced by Wilkerson Glass Co. Marked FW.
'B' for Bennett
Photos courtesy of Frank D. Sereno
Evelyn Schrader New Carlisle, IN
Sabrina Waddell
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Guernsey rabbiT on Akro Agate Base
Lime Green
Michele Haste
Aqua
Michele Haste
Evelyn Shrader
Evelyn Shrader
Blue/White Slag
Michele Haste
Michele
Haste
Michele Haste
Look how this Yellow Slag has Red mixed in

Guernsey Glass Company
rabbiT on Akro Agate Base
Akro Agate 654 mark
Guernsey photos courtesy of Jennifer Patton
RIGHT: Lid and base
marked FW for Fred
Wilkerson Glass Co.
LEFT: A hint of amethyst
shines through
Wilkerson retained
original marks
on the base
In 2024, it was discovered that Wilkerson Glass Co. reproduced this dish.
Unknown if in other colors. Wilkerson photos courtesy of Carrie Owens
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BIBLIOGRAPHY: Guernsey Glass Company:
Book: the Milk Glass Book By Frank Chiarenza & James Slater, published
by Schiffer Publishing Ltd, copyright 1998 by Frank Chiarenza and James
Slater Page 69-RABBIT
Online: MAGWV FORUM: https://chataboutdg.com -HISTORY
Online: www.bundy-lawfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Harold-D-Bennett-
527870/#!//Obituary -HISTORY
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