1882 The Brooklynn Museum states the plate is made by Canton Glass Co. Colorless pressed glass platter, general rectangular shape with canted corners. Center decorated with scene of the railroad engine #350 chugging through the landscape; two engineers ride in front car. Each side of the rim decorated with leaves in register with stippled ground. CONDITION: Good; flea bite chips along rim on underside.
This platter commemorates the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869, when the tracks met at Promontory Point, Utah. The engine on the platter is Union Pacific engine #350 Brooklyn Museum. The item "Transcontinental Railroad Train Union Pacific 350 Plate Cooperative Flint Glass" is in sale since Thursday, October 10, 2019. This item is in the category "Pottery & Glass\Glass\Glassware\EAPG Pattern Glass 1850-1910\Other EAPG Patterned Glassware". The seller is "bud52" and is located in Spokane, Washington.This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint kitts and nevis, Turks and caicos islands, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macao, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Viet nam, Uruguay, Dominican republic, El salvador, Russian federation.