{"id":353,"date":"2010-03-14T18:33:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T23:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=353"},"modified":"2024-03-16T18:39:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T22:39:44","slug":"milk-glass-hen-pin-cushion-c-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Milk glass hen pin cushion, c.1890"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every home in America had a version of a molded glass&nbsp;hen on a nest covered dish. But most homes did not have this clever &#8220;make-do&#8221; pin cushion, made from just a broken lid. I assume the intact bottom half was reused as a dish, but the top half remains were encased in fabric and cotton batting, crocheted with red &#8220;feathers&#8221; around the neck and transformed in to a practical pin cushion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19732.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4475\" title=\"IMG_1973\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19732.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19732.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19732-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pin cushion hen measures 4-1\/4&#8243; high.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1974.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4477\" title=\"IMG_1974\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1974.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1974.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1974-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mother hen pin cushion began life looking something like this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hen-blue1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2290\" title=\"hen blue\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hen-blue1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hen-blue1.jpg 320w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hen-blue1-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornerstonecollectibles.com\">Cornerstone Collectibles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every home in America had a version of a molded glass&nbsp;hen on a nest covered dish. But most homes did not have this clever &#8220;make-do&#8221; pin cushion, made from just a broken lid. I assume the intact bottom half was reused as a dish, but the top half remains were encased in fabric and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[62,32],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pin-cushion","tag-american","tag-glass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17138,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/17138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}