1940s pair Abingdon vitreous china double candleholders Very unusual antiques. Not anything like bone china. Start Price USD 32.00 Current Price USD 32.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, November 08, 2008 End Time Monday, December 08, 2008 Location Lima, OH See more about '1940s pair Abingdon vitreous china double candleholders' Description Pair of Abingdon vitreous china candleholders.  Each stands 5" tall.  The base is 4 1/2" x 3".  These are double candleholders.  Each candleholder holds two candles. Very unusual design, almost art nouveau.  They are in perfect condition.  The color is peach with gold highlights.  The gold is fired, not painted. The Abingdon Pottery was started in 1908.  The Abingdon Art Pottery line was manufactured from 1934 until 1950. The Abingdon Pottery used the same process to make artware that it used to make its plumbingware. This made for a definite robust appearance created by the industrial strength materials and processes used to make the bodies and glazes. Made of high-fired china, pieces of Abingdon were guaranteed to hold water. Especially selected china clays from England and Georgia, ball clays from England and Tennessee, flint or ground silica sand from points in Illinois, and feldspar from the company's own mines in the Black Hills of South Dakota all went to make this strong china body. The feldspar in this mixture, being a fusing material, binds the various clays and flint together under intense heat while the china clays provide fast casting and light color and the ball clays give strength in production and in the finished product. In a 1947 catalog, Abingdon listed five important features of their pottery: originality of designing; skilled modeling; exquisitely hand-decorated; superior craftsmanship; and variety. There is a blending of practical usefulness with originality and distinctiveness that set Abingdon Pottery apart from all other artware on the American Market.     Place a Bid!