Milk Glass Robin on Pedestal Nest Covered Dish

I'm the proud new owner of a

milk glass candy dish!

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The Westmoreland Milk Glass Robin 

 On Pedestal Nest covered dish.

Very highly detailed with a finishing process

that involved folding over the leaves on the nest

while the glass was still flexible after it was

removed from the mold.

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Believed to have been first designed 

as early as 1908 in the French 

glass house, Vallerysthal 

as a "Sucriers" or covered sugars. 

Then listed in 1933 in the French

glass house catalog of Portieux.

It was from Portieux that 

Westmoreland Glass

began to reproduce their design 

in the late 1940's or early 1950's.

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Here is the Westmoreland Glass Company

from 1889 till it closed in 1984

located in Grapeville, PA 

Westmoreland marked their glass with an

overlapping WG from 1940 to 1980.

My lid has that mark

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However I cannot find the WG mark on the base.

Here's mine,

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And here's another one from ebay.

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You can see the mark faintly there.

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So mine might be considered a marriage of old 

and new...I don't know. 

I've read where Westmoreland sometimes

didn't mark all the bases.

Does anyone know for sure?

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Regardless, it sure is 

a nice looking candy dish 

with a cute little robin 

all hunkered down in her nest.

Thanks for stopping by

and happy hunting!