RARE QUEEN WILHELMINA COMMEMORATIVES MADE OF GLASS PART 1
The Royal Leerdam glass factory has produced some rare glass commemoratives for the inauguration and different jubilees of Queen Wilhelmina.
In 1898 they made various engraved drinking glasses for the inauguration but also a gin carafe with the portrait of the young Queen.
- Glass gin carafe inauguration Queen Wilhelmina 1898.
In 1923 Leerdam designer A.D. Copier designed a glass for the Queen’s silver jubilee. The purple and blue glasses are very common but there are some variations which are less known. Here some examples:
- A.D Copier glasses 1923.
- A.D Copier glasses 1923.
- advertising for the A.D Copier glazen.
- Copier also designed a glass for the silver jubilee in 1923, there were only 100 of these glasses made, which is very rare to find. The glass is hand painted by A. J van Kooten a well known glass decorator at the factory.
- Rare 1923 glass only 100 were ever made.
In 1926 Copier designed the orange Beer Beaker to commemorate the silver wedding anniversary of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Hendrik, again made by the Leerdam factory.
- Orange beer glass made for the silver wedding of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Hendrik 1926.
In 1948 Copier designed a glass goblet for the golden jubilee of Queen Wilhelmina .
Research by the National Glass Museum has discovered the drawings for this pressed glass goblet by A.D. Copier, but it seems that the item was never offered for sale. Possibly due to an insurmountable problem with the production of this design, the factory seems to have given the whole production away to schoolchildren in Leerdam. This is a very sought after item.
- 1948 press glass goblet that never went into production.
Information source: National Glassmuseum, The complete works of A.D Copier.
Also in 1948 the factory made a glass dish for the golden jubilee. The dish was only given as a gift to the ministers who were in the government in 1948. Not many were made, the designer is unknown.
