Compleat American Glass Candy Containers Handbook/With Supplement

Did the candy sell the container or did the container sell the candy? The incredible array of American glass candy containers - from airplanes to bird cages, carpet sweepers to elephants, comic characters to windmills - produced in the early twentieth century seems to indicate that the candy was secondary to the container's appeal as a toy. Collector's of this fascinating hobby will be pleased with an excellent new reference entitled THE COMPLEAT AMERICAN GLASS CANDY CONTAINERS HANDBOOK. The book is a compilation of two previous books on candy containers with revisions & updated information on 100 more containers. Well researched, it offers a thorough history of glass candy containers, interesting chapters on their manufacture, the companies & their background. Reproduced are some of the many salesman's catalog sheets as well as photos of actual molds. The toy containers are alphabetically indexed by subject matter - it seemed that anything & everything was inspirational for new designs. Drawings of each container are given with detailed descriptions & information on date of manufacture. A separate price guide is included.Eikelberner, George is the author of 'Compleat American Glass Candy Containers Handbook/With Supplement' with ISBN 9780961617707 and ISBN 0961617705.