Here you go @ssjones here’s some of my Houze depression glass Forbes Pipe Rests. This is the complete collection, I’ll post some more photos later. The top one is uranium glass.
Houze glass Forbes pipe rests
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Haven't seen these before. Cool, really cool. Did they make one that held multiple pipes or just singles?
I like that jade colored one. I should find one of these for my desk.
They made a single rest that didn't have a tray on the front, nothing for more than one pipe. There were some later companies that did make multiple in line pressed glass rests. I have a few 4 & 5 pipe in line glass rests.
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Good luck, the Jadeite is one of the hardest colors to find, they didn't make many in that color. Collectors tend to snap em up pretty quickly so they can get pricey. Also glass collectors and resellers tend not to know what these things are so they get listed as spoon rests and all sorts of strange things on resale sites and eBay.
Cool collection- I hadn’t seen these before
Thanks for posting
Thanks for posting
Thanks for the pointers. Figures I want the most expensive hard-to-find version haha.
Amber and brown are the most common, they're pretty easy to come by. I bought my fist two for 50 cents each at an antique store together several years ago. The rest have taken years to find at glass shows, eBay, and antique stores. The single rests are near impossible to find and if when they do pop up I generally buy them. I'm still hunting for a few colors. I've spoken to the gentleman who now owns the original molds used by the factory and have pretty extensive photos of them. There are some logo/data embossing variations throughout the years and some are older than others and in turn worth more.
That’s all pretty cool info. I won’t look on e bay so as to not step on your toes, but if I see one in the wild at a fair price I’ll snag it. What are the other colors that your still seeking? Red yellow and orange and purple seem to be “missing” from your spectrum, if they made those. We’re any embossed with pipe company logos?
Those are gorgeous! When I saw the title with the spelling "Houze", I figured it would be some sort of glass pipe paraphernalia. Happy to be wrong in this case.
None were ever embossed with anything other the company info on the bottom. Id have to look at my spreadsheet to see what colors I'm missing, these are not all of my pieces, I have quite a few more.
Thanks for posting. I just recently posted my habit. I have never seen one of these holders before. Amazing collection!!!
Very cool pipe rests - thanks for remembering to do this post (following your intro)! I had never heard of this brand, and will have to keep an eye out for one.
I have my grandfather's. And one of his LHX Purex pipes. Pat. Date is 1923.
While Mr. R. Pyles collects cool-as-shit glass stuff, his wife collects cats.
Their happy marriage has been used by theoretical physicists to prove that literally anything is possible.
Their happy marriage has been used by theoretical physicists to prove that literally anything is possible.
Very cool! do you actually use the rest? I have two I use on regular basis outside on my patio. They are pretty much impervious to anything other than dropping.
Lucky we don't have as many cats as I do pipes and pipe rests and other various collections. We're down to two now. My wife puts up with a lot of PAD shenanigan's, she even occasionally takes part and buys me one. I would be remis if did not admit that a large bulk of my Houze collection has been hunted and secured by her. Hunting, researching, and acquiring depression era glass pipe furniture is her way of being a part of my pipe collecting mania. She's an enabler, so really it's all her fault...
Lets not even get into my ever growing insulator collection.