Cathy bought most of these vintage glass swizzle sticks (cocktail stirrers) as one item at a yard sale. The collection cost $5, including the beer tankard they came in. Since then she's added a few more and moved them to a vase. They look a lot like a floral bouquet, although since this is a celery vase, it was not made to hold flowers.
She found the vintage (we think 1960s-1980s) pressed-glass celery vase for $1 at a charity shop.
After posting this article we discovered that the vase is probably "vintage" rather than "antique". Someone on Pinterest who re-pinned it had a lot of other pins about glassware, particularly the Fostorial "American" pattern. That led us to an article "It's Fostoria “American”...or is it?", and Cathy's vase sure looks like one of the photos there. Therefore we think it's an Indiana Glass "Whitehall" 14-ounce cooler, produced some time between the early 1960s and the mid-1980s.
It's more likely to have been used for Kool-Aid than for celery. Nonetheless we think it's a great way to display a swizzle-stick collection.
It's more likely to have been used for Kool-Aid than for celery. Nonetheless we think it's a great way to display a swizzle-stick collection.
The whimsical blown-glass sticks cover a variety of subject areas. Insects...
Fish...
More fish...
Birds...
Christmas trees...
Food...
Desert pants...
Etcetera!
In total she has 39 of them.
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