This is some fun, quirky barware for your retro bar cart! TREASURE ISLAND was Libbey's pirate and pirate ship-themed barware featuring some hapless pirates marooned on a deserted island trying to wave down a distant pirate ship.Left there to die? Or washed up on its shores after their own ship sank? Best bet is the Libbey designers were swept up in the Pirate craze that spawned the movie Blackbeard, the Pirate in 1952 and Prince of Pirates in 1953.  (Though...a careful read of their 1953 catalog reveals it was based on TREASURE ISLAND, Robert Louis Stevenson's much read classic which I never read because I preferred stories about horses and wolves when I was a child.)

I found this pattern in Libbey's 1953 catalog and I'm a bit confused because this graphic and shape is listed as a 4 oz Cocktail glass (based on size and specific pirate drawing) but this glass only holds 3 oz! This pattern does not appear in the next catalog I have (1955) so it's hard to know what happened. Did kids like it so much they added a smaller coupe style glass to the line????  

This is a small cocktail glass but still appropriate for a splash of liquor or cordial or a smaller cocktail such as the Lion's Tale (which comes in at exactly 3 0z and looks fabulous right up against the rim of a coupe style glass.) 

Measures 3 7/8" tall and 2 7/8" at top.

Condition is very good on all. No cracks or chips. Colors are bright. No scratches to mar the design. No water stains or cloudiness to glass. The signs of wear are all on the gold rim. If a glass saw any use, the gold rim will show wear. The wear is not excessive for the age at all. It is subtle, only visible in certain light and from certain angles. The nature of the gold accents is to shine, and that gleam tends to hide minor wear. I am keeping the ones with the most wear for my own personal collection.

Price is for one set of 2.  I also have the whiskey sour or juice glasses in this pattern listed. I have two sets of two of those as well. Just reach out before purchase if you want to bundle and i will get you updated shipping for all.

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I’m drawn to kitchenware because kitchen is the heart of the home. The ritual of choosing a plate pattern when getting married is one of the first choices an engaged couple makes together. This is when they decide what image of “successful adulthood” they want to portray to their friends and family. Often the bride had more control over these choices—but so much less control about most everything else. Women are still fighting for control over their lives, bodies, education, and destiny.

It may seem odd to look backwards at dishes and bowls from the 1920’s-1970’s to be inspired about women’s rights but I am aware on a daily basis that any opportunity or privilege I have today was made possible by women who came before me—intelligent women like my mother who may have not been legally able to have her own checking account or attend certain universities, but still took action to shape a better future.